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PrestaShop can host your online business on its in-house Web servers; please consult our PrestaBox website for details on our low-priced, secure Website hosting service. This is highly recommended for businesses with little to no experience with the Internet or computers. Naturally, we install and update PrestaShop for you. |
Where to put PrestaShop?
You might want to know right away were you'd rather host PrestaShop. There are four possibilities relating to your domain name:
- At the root of the domain: http://www.myprestashop.com/
- In a folder: http://www.myprestashop.com/shop/
- In a sub-domain: http://shop.myprestashop.com/
- In a folder of a sub-domain: http://.myprestashop.com/
Registering a domain name
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- Windows
- Notepad++: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
- UltraEdit: http://www.ultraedit.com/
- Crimson Editor: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
- OS X
- Textmate: http://macromates.com/
- Coda: http://www.panic.com/coda/
- Smultron: http://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/
- Unix/Linux
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Do NOT use a word processor, such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Write when editing text files. |
FTP client
FTP is short for "File Transfer Protocol", meaning the standard way used to transfer files from a computer to a web-host.
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Setting up a local environment
This section is mainly targeted at users wishing to install PrestaShop on a remote server/host.
You may wish to install on your local machine, either in order to test PrestaShop before investing money in a server and domain name, or to customize your shop locally before you push your modifications to the PrestaShop installation that would already you have online.
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