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Principia Webica

Installing and managingan e-commerce applications

Practical Web Service Management

Installing PrestaShop

Why PrestaShop ?

Winner of 2010 Best e-commerce solution award Complete Open Source – runs on typical LAMP, Windows etc. Unlimited cataloging of products Advanced handling of customers Full handling of orders Payment processing Shipping handling Advanced statistics Advanced SEO (Semantic Web is coming) 41 languages of the world | Unlimited number of currencies High security Extensions (external modules)

www.prestashop.com

Installing PrestaShop

Installation on vBox:Add Shared Folders to your vBox:a) in Virtual Box Manager – Settingsb) select a folder on your PC to be shared

Mount the shared folder to your Linux system:

mkdir /media/shared

mount –t vboxsf shared /media/shared(of course if you have created the “shared” share)

On your PC download PRESTASHOP from http://www.prestashop.com/en/downloads/

Copy it to shared folder

Installing PrestaShop

Goto your linux system (cd /media/shared)If you don’t yet have ‘unzip’, install it:apt-get install unzip

Goto /media/sharedUnpack PrestaShop to /var/www/prestashop:unzip prestashop_1.4.3.0.zip –d /var/www

Update permissions of PrestaShop files:

cd /var/www/prestashop

chmod –R 777 *Run PrestaShop installer:http://<vbox_ip>/prestashop

Installing PrestaShop

Create a database for PrestaShop:

open http://<vbox_ip>/phpmyadmincreate ‘prestashop’ database

Go through installer’s screens

setup database in configuration screenWhen you have the default shop running, setup its backoffice:a) delete /var/www/prestshop/install folderb) rename /var/www/prestashop/admin to e.g. admin1