sub folder as homepage

[chriscse]

Hi,

Fairly new to prestashop. I'm building a site for a friend but I dont want to change their homepage until I'm ready to go live, so I have created the shop in a subfolder. I then plan to use .htaccess to forward from the root to the sub folder. Is this best practice or should I be doing it another way.

Cheers

Chris

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi Chris,

We usually recommend you install and set up PrestaShop on your local host using WAMP or something similar to test everything out before putting it up live on your site. If you have any questions about this, please let me know.

 

-Mike

[chriscse]

Hi Mike,

Is it difficult to "go live" from the WAMP (MAMP), are there any guides or tutorials for this.

Many thanks

Chris

[Mike Kranzler]

Hi Chris,

It's not difficult at all. Here are the basic steps;

 

Copy your site to the server and set folder permissions

Export your database from localhost in phpmyadmin and be sure to write down user/password access

On your webserver from phpmyadmin create a database with the same name and import file from above and then add your username and password

 

That should do it for you! Let me know if you have any additional questions.

 

-Mike