Rebuild a 1.6.1 Prestashop store after a reinstall?

[don@ptg]

Hello, I inherited a mess that I am trying to fix after my work let another employee go. The problem is the site was originally zencart, then when the other employee wanted to install other stores they put them inside each other and used redirects to push visitors to the different folders.  Its a mess, so far I have found magento, wordpress, other zencart installs and finally the PrestaShop folders all installed inside a very old zencart structure.

 

The PrestaShop is working and is fairly bug free. I contacted my hositing company (Godaddy)and they recomended destroying everything and starting over with a fresh install of PrestaShop.  I saved the database and the sass/css files to try rebuilding a duplicate site on a local server at work. The local server with a new PrestaShop install is supposted to be a duplicate of the live site for testing. Testing on a live site is not the owners prefference.

 

  On my first attempt a few strange things happened. The css files were not a problem. Once the database was erased and rebuilt the local host site would not show at all, it kept redirecting to the current live site and my log in for the admin area would not work using the same passwords.  I think some of this is caused by the mess on the original site. So I was hoping to find out what database files are required to rebuild the store inventory, order and customer lists and just try importing those into a fresh PrestaShop install by themselves, leaving the rest of the database from the fresh install alone.

 

Thank you for the advice.

[vbatra]

i think you need to change the site URL in the local database to your localhost

[don@ptg]

I finally found some information. I searched before, but I was not using the same search terms.

 

http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS16/System+Administrator+Guide#SystemAdministratorGuide-MovingPrestaShop

Edited August 3, 2015 by don@ptg (see edit history)