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Dears,
I have tried Presashop and I was super impressed by the power and ease of use behind it.
I have set a up a local site under windows using Wamp server and everything is fine. Now that I have finished customizing my shop, I want to move it to a real hosting server. and here is the case:

On my new server, i created an exact copy of ps_ database and imported the contents using phpmyadmin import/export tool. Then i copied my shop's folder to the new server. Though the product information seems to be there, everything else in the new website is messed up as in product pictures, themes, logos! Does Prestashop need reference to the picture files on the local hard drive or does it upload to the prestashop folder? Did i miss out anything?

Can any body please summarize main points of moving a site based on Prestashop? I am not much of website programming literate, so i can use few basic instruction about such a need. Would i need to create the exact same folder pictures on the new server with its content and path as before?

Thanks in advance,I hope any of you can answer me even if briefly.
Regards,
Ashraf

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As long as you copy all the data from your local copy to the remote copy, then there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Some important files/folders are:

/img ; always make sure you copy the entire contents of this to your new server as this is where the product and category images are stored
/themes ; you'll need to copy your theme over if you use anything but the unmodified default one.
/mails ; if you've customised any of the email templates then you should copy this folder over to the new install
/modules ; you may have added new modules in here and/or changed the code for exiting ones, so move these across too (the editorial module is commonly changed for example, via the back office.).
/translations ; again if you've modified anything in here, then copy it over too.

in /config/settings.in.php you set the "root" folder on your site for PrestaShop. Make sure that this is correct. Make sure you've altered the permissions on files as per the installation instructions; you can get a copy of this from the PrestaShop Download Page.

If you post a link to your new site, then maybe folks having a look at it, can identify a specific problem you may have.

Good luck,

Paul

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  • 2 months later...

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM

I WANT TO MOVE FROM LOCAL TO SERVER, WITH DATABASENAME, USER AND PASSWD DIFERENT FROM LOCAL INSTALATION ...
I HAVE DONE THE TREE STEPS

1. Copying all files inside your web account through FTP
2. Copying your local PrestaShop database’s data to your online database
3. Editing your setting.inc.php file

As you, when I access the index still in blank page. But I can access the
admin page!

ANYONE COULD HELP ME?

;)
THANKS A LOT!

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It is likely that there are components missing from the configuration on your local server.

Have you tried doing an installation on your local server? Doing this may alert you to essential settings that are not set up correctly. You can also look at configuring the php.ini for your local config to log php errors to a file - that way you'll get an idea of the error that's causing the blank page. It could be something as trivial as having friendly urls turned on when your server isn't configured with mod_rewrite.

Paul

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THE PROBLEM WAS WITH FTP!!!!

WHEN I COPY TO NEW SERVER THE PERMISSION SETTINGS ARE SET TO DEFAULT!!!

SO I HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT

the following PrestaShop folders have ‘write’ permissions (also known as “CHMOD 777” – explanation of file permissions here) but do not apply these permissions recursively (to their subfolders): /config, /upload, /download, /tools/smarty/compile. Then make sure the following folders have ‘write’ permissions and apply these permissions recursively (to their subfolders): /img, /mails, /modules, /themes/prestashop/lang, /translations

;)
THANKX A LOT!

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