sahwira Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I have played with my website hosted by godaddy but someone else installed that for me. Now I am trying to install a test site for myself on my desktop using the user quide instructions and I find that sometimes they assume a certain level of experience with the installation process already as evidenced by the numerous threads I found in the forum of people with my similar situation. Here is what I have done thus far: 1) I downloaded the wampserver to C:|wamp 2) I downloaded prestashop 1.4.9.0 and put the unzipped file folder to c:\wamp|www/prestashop 3) I went to my browser and typed 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin and created a test database. I was expecting the auto installer to do its magic .... NOTHING happened! a) Do I need to create a URL for my test site? if so how? Do I need to ftp the prestashop files somewhere? if so how? Its been a couple of days of searching the forums for a solution with no luck. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) When you install a web server a default location is set so that if you send the web server a request for a file it will know where to get the file. First let me say you are on the correct path. Setting up a server on your own computer is a good way to work with all web applications. I use a different web server, but I believe your default directory is c:/wamp/www/ You can test this, simply put a text file, call it test.txt, put HELLO WORLD! in the text file. Open your browser and for the Internet address type http://localhost/test.txt If you see HELLO WORLD!! then you should next try, http://localhost/prestashop/ And see what happens. Hopefully the system is set for a default php document and it will just work. If not we need to set up index.php as the default document. Edited January 10, 2013 by Bill Dalton (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahwira Posted January 10, 2013 Author Share Posted January 10, 2013 Thank you very much!! That solved my problem and now the installation process on my desktop is complete! I think the documentation of this process could be made much clearer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Dalton Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Welcome to the Prestashop forum! See you around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Borderie Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Hello Sahwira, and welcome to PrestaShop! I know the installation documentation could use an upgrade, and I plan on diving into it in the coming weeks. In the mean time, reading this discussion, I have made a couple quick changes which I think might help. http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/What+you+need+to+get+started Changes: http://doc.prestashop.com/pages/diffpages.action?pageId=5374220&originalId=14417939 Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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