What is Prestashop #
Prestashop is one of the eCommerce store builder. It provides growth and flexibility to eCommerce businesses. It is open-source software anyone can use for their eCommerce business. Using Prestashop you can customize your store. Here is how to install Prestashop using a softaculous app installer and manual installation.
Uses of Prestashop #
- Retailers
- Small business owners
- Ecommerce
System requirements of Prestashop #
- PHP
- Version 7.1+
- Database
- MySQL 5.6+
- Webserver
- Apache 2.2+
- Nginx
Features of prestashop #
- Customize your store
- Create products
- Market your store
- Manage orders
- Run customers
- Get insights about products
Install Prestashop #
To install Prestashop, there are 2 methods to install on your hosting
- Install Prestashop using softaculous app installer
- Manually install Prestashop
Installation using softaculous app installer #
For installation of Prestashop using a softaculous app installer, you have to follow some steps the steps are a follows
Step1: login to your hostrik hosting account and in Cpanel and go to the software section, and click on softaculous app installer.
Step2: in the softaculous app installer search box type Prestashop and press enter, the installation window of Prestashop will open, click the install button.
Step3: In the next window, you will see the installation window and it will ask you to fill in some information about your site.
Step4: in software, set up selects the protocol of your site and domain off sit after that select the directory of your site.
Step5: in-store setting selects the name of your store then that also gives the store owner’s name.
Step6: in the admin account set give the username and password of your admin account and also give the email id for your admin account.
Step7: After that in the advanced section create the database for your store by giving your name to the database. Also, select the backup for your database, and click install. This is the softaculous app installer method to install Prestashop.
Manually install Prestashop #
For manual installation of Prestashop, you have to follow the following steps the steps are divided into 3 parts
- File configuration
- Database creation
- Store configuration
File configuration
Step1: go to Prestashop’s official website and download the latest version of the software from the download section.
Step2: extract that file, and log in to your hostrik Cpanel account, in that go to the file section click on file manager.
Step3: in the public_html folder upload the file that you extracted where you are going to install the Prestashop.
Database creation
Step1: in database creation go to the database section of your Cpanel account and in that click on MySQLDatabase,
Step2: After opening a new window that creates the new database by giving the name of the database and click on create database.
Step3: After creating the database you have to dd user to that database in add user section give the username and password of the user and click on create a user.
Step4: when you create a user you have to give privileges to that user, click on all privileges to all privileges to that user.
Store configuration
Step1: go to the URL your going to install Prestashop you will see the loading window from Prestashop wait for the loading.
Step2: in this step, you have to select the language for the install PrestaShop, select the language, and click on next.
Stpe3: in this step, you have to accept the license agreement to install Prestashop.
Step4: in the next step, Prestashop checks the system requirements. And gets to the next step.
Step5: in the next step you have to configure the system with the store, connect the database you created in the above step. Give the database server, username, password of the database.
Step6: In the next step give the information about the store. Give the name of the store, country admin account setup.
Step7: you will the installation started. this is a manual method to install Prestashop.