working on my prestashop shop on wampserver locally

[hokaro]

Hi all

 

I have been working on my website and launched it already, but so far I have only worked and developed it online in real time. I know this is not the best way to work on Prestashop, so now I want to work on my website locally first and then upload the tested version to my online server.

 

I have download all the files to my wampserver root, but when I type "localhost" it says that it is not connected to the database.

 

My question is: how can I export/import my database to my localhost wampserver? so that I work on it locally first before uploading it?

 

I appreciate any help

[El Patron]

when you installed the wampserver...this should also have created you a mysql.

 

Check out this forum for wampserver: http://forum.wampserver.com/list.php?2

 

you will need to export via PHYMYADMIN your existing mysql db. Then when you figure out how to access phpmyadmin on your local host (assuming that comes with wampserver as I don't use that method) you simply import your exported db into your mysql db. You can keep the same mysql db name and password, if not one or both then you will need to up date config/settings.inc.php with the new settings.

 

suerte!