Transfering Prestashop Website To Different Domain

[thepeklis]

I was creating a Prestashop website on my development domain, and now when it's done, i wanted to transfer it to the new, official domain.

However, When doing so, I came across an error i couldn't solve. Page just loaded an error saying

"Error: "install" directory is missing",

and in error.log, there was this:

[error] [client ] PHP Warning: realpath(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1044 is not allowed to access /var/www/domain.com/www owned by uid 0 in /var/www/domain.com/www/config/defines.inc.php on line 69

[error] [client ] PHP Warning: realpath(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1044 is not allowed to access /var/www/domain.com/www owned by uid 0 in /var/www/domain.com/www/config/defines.inc.php on line 66

On those lines is this:

define('_PS_ROOT_DIR_', realpath($currentDir.'/..'));

define('_PS_CORE_DIR_', realpath($currentDir.'/..'));

Anyone knows how to correct it?

Thanks.

 

[El Patron]

HI and welcome to the PrestaShop forum.

 

This sounds very much like a hosting plan that does not fully support PrestaShop.

 

I suggest uploading and installing a clean PrestaShop.  During installation PrestaShop will check your server configuration to ensure that it's compatible.  Once you have the hosting sorted out and a clean installation, then it would be safe to then delete that and upload your working copy.