Installing PrestaShop - step by step guide

To run your own online store, you must first download PrestaShop to our computer.

The PrestaShop installer can be found at: www.prestashop.com/en

The downloaded file will have a .zip extension.

Transferring PrestaShop files to the server

After downloading the .zip file, log in to cPanel via the address www.customer-domain.eu/cpanel, where we change the "customer-domain" to our domain name.

Then click the "File Manager" button.

After loading the manager, click "Upload" and select the previously downloaded PrestaShop file with the .zip extension.

The file will be sent to the server, and to see it, we have to select the "Reload" option. The file will appear in the root directory.

The next step is to extract the files. To do this, click on the file that we have sent to the server (with the extension .zip) and click the "Extract" button. Another window appears. Now we need to indicate the folder where our files should be placed.

For the store to work properly, select the "public_html" directory and click "Extract File (s)."

If an additional domain in which we want to have a shop has already been added to the account, we must enter its directory name after "public_html /".

When finished, click "Close" and go to the PrestaShop installation.

Installing PrestaShop

Through the browser, we enter the address of our website www.domena-klienta.pl (where, of course, we change the client-domain to the name of our domain).

If all files have been ripped correctly, you should see the loading page.

After loading, we start the installation.

In the first step, select the language to be used and click "Next".

Then we read, accept the license and click "Next".

Time to complete the information about our store. The installer needs information such as:

Shop name

Main activity

Country

First Name

Last Name

E-mail address 

Password and its confirmation

We provide this information and click "Next".

After going further, we complete the information about the database. A guide on how to create a database is available on our website

Database server address: 127.0.0.1 or localhost

Database name: The name of our  database 

Database User: The username 

Database password: The password 

Prefix of tables: Leave unchanged, i.e .: ps_

To be sure, we check the connection using the "Test database connection" button.

If all the data has been entered correctly, a green message about connecting to the database will be displayed.

Click "Next".

The store has been configured and the installer proceeds to install the entire system.

Our store is almost ready for use. According to the information from the installer, for security reasons, we should delete the "Install" folder.

To do this, go to cPanel -> File manager. Go to the "public_html" directory, find the "install" folder and remove it using the "Delete" option

We have one last thing to do. Namely, renaming the "admin" directory so that we can log in comfortably. Also using the "File Manager" we search for the "admin" folder and change its name to the one we choose.

To log in to the back-end of the store (i.e. to the place where we can manage it) in the browser, go to the address of the directory whose name we have just changed. Ie:

www.customer-domain.eu/admin123 (where "customer-domain" is the name of your domain, and "admin123" is the name of the directory)

In this way, we created our online store quickly and easily. Now all we have to do is adjust it to our own needs, add products and start the adventure with online sales.