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    • What you need to get started
    • Installing PrestaShop
    • Installing PrestaShop 8 on your computer
    • Installing PrestaShop 8 using the command-line script
    • Uninstalling PrestaShop 8
    • Misc. information
  • User Guide PrestaShop 8
    • Connecting to the PrestaShop back office
    • First steps with PrestaShop 8
    • Selling with PrestaShop
      • Managing your Product Catalog
        • Managing Products
        • Managing Categories
        • Monitoring your Catalog
        • Managing Product Attributes
        • Managing Product Features
        • Managing Brands
        • Managing Suppliers
        • Managing Files
        • Managing Discounts
          • Cart Rules
          • Catalog Price Rules
        • Managing Stock
          • Stock Overview
          • Stock Movements
        • New product page (PrestaShop 8.1)
      • Managing your Customers
        • Your customers
        • Customer addresses
        • Outstanding
      • Managing the Customer Service
        • Customer Service
        • Order Messages
        • Merchandise Returns
      • Understanding your statistics
      • Managing your Orders
        • Order list management
        • Order page management
          • Editing an order
          • Creating returns and refunds
        • Creating a back office order
        • Invoices
        • Credit slips
        • Delivery slips
        • Shopping carts
    • Improving your store
      • Managing your Modules
        • Modules and Services
          • Module notifications
          • Modules Selection
          • Installed modules
      • Customizing your store design
        • Theme and Logo
        • Theme Catalog
        • Email Theme
        • Pages - Managing Static Content
        • Positions
        • Image Settings
        • Link Widget
      • Managing Shipping
        • Carriers
        • Shipping Preferences
      • Managing Payments
        • Payment Methods
        • Payment Preferences
      • Going International
        • Localization
          • Localization settings
          • Languages
          • Currencies
          • Geolocation
        • Locations
          • Countries
          • Zones
          • States
        • Managing Taxes
          • Taxes
          • Tax Rules
        • Translations
    • Configuring your store
      • Configuring your Shop Parameters
        • General settings
          • General parameters
          • Maintenance
        • Order Settings
          • Orders preferences
          • Statuses
        • Product Settings
        • Customer Settings
          • Customer Preferences
          • Groups
          • Titles
        • Contact
        • Traffic
          • SEO and URLs
          • Search Engines
          • Referrers
        • Search
          • Search parameters
          • Tags
      • Configuring Advanced Parameters
        • Information
        • Performance
        • Administration
        • Email
        • Import
        • Team
          • Employees
          • Profiles
          • Permissions
        • Database
          • SQL Manager
          • Database Backup
        • Logs
        • Webservice
        • Multistore
        • Experimental features
        • Security
    • Managing multiple stores
      • The multistore interface
        • Adding a new store
        • Adding a new group of stores
        • Setting a store's URL
      • Sample Usages and Specifics
    • Browsing the front office
    • Complying with the GDPR
    • Discovering the Administration Area
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  1. Getting started with PrestaShop 8

Misc. information

This page lists additional information you may need to install PrestaShop 8.

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Keep a test version at hand!

Right after you have completed setting up your store, but just before officially opening it to the public, we strongly recommend that you install a local test version on your personal computer (using for Windows, for Mac, or for Linux, or for any of those platforms), or elsewhere on your hosting server.

This second instance will be useful as a pre-production environment in which you can carry out all future changes to your PrestaShop store without affecting the live version. This way, if an error occurs, your live store remains intact and untouched.

After you have confirmed that your test version works as it should, copy the test version over to the live version. It is best to do this after peak usage hours, and with your store properly and temporarily disabled from within the PrestaShop back office.

To do so, you can use mode.

Checking for the GD library

The enables PrestaShop to rework images that you upload, especially resizing them.

On a default installation of PHP, the GD Library should be turned on, but if that's not the case for your installation, here are the standard Windows instructions:

  1. In the root directory of your PHP folder, open the php.ini file.

  2. Uncomment the extension=php_gd2.dll line by deleting the ";" at the start of the line. This line should be located about halfway through the file, in the middle of a long list of extensions.

  3. Restart the PHP services.

If you have no access to the php.ini file (which is often the case in shared hosting), contact your host about your hosting needs.

Activating PHP 7.2+

To install PrestaShop 8, PHP 7.2 must be activated.

It is extended to PHP 8.1, but don't attempt to run PrestaShop using PHP 8.2, it won't work.

The following is a list of procedures of which we are currently aware of.

1&1 IONOS

Add this line to your .htaccess file:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

For URL re-writing, add these lines:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

Free.fr

Add this line to your .htaccess file:

php 1

OVH

Add this line to your .htaccess file:

SetEnv PHP_VER 5

To deactivate global registers:

SetEnv REGISTER_GLOBALS 0

GoDaddy

To view your PHP version:

  1. Log in to your Account Manager.

  2. From the Products section, click Web Hosting.

  3. Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.

In the Server section, your PHP Version displays.

To change your PHP version:

  1. From the Content menu, select Programming Languages.

  2. Select the PHP version you want to use, and then click Continue.

  3. Click Update.

Changes can take up to 24 hours to complete.

Lunarpages shared hosting

  1. Enter your account username and password in the box that appears.

  2. A new page appears. Go to the bottom row of icons on the page and click the icon titled "Enable/Disable PHP 7.2+"

  3. A new page appears. Click "Add PHP 7.2+ To Your Account!".

Your language change request is now submitted! Please allow up to 24 hours for the change to be processed by the hosting server.

Please do not hesitate to post a bug report concerning the tips needed to make PrestaShop run on your hosting service, on (you will need an account). We will add them to this guide as we receive them.

Enter cPanel. It should be located at

WAMP
MAMP
LAMP
XAMPP
Maintenance
GD library
GitHub
http://www.(your_domain).(com/net/org/etc)/cpanel