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This second version will be useful as a pre-production environment in which you can carry out all future changes to your PrestaShop online store without affecting the live version. This way, if an error should occur, your live store remains unchanged.Note:
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After you have confirmed that your test version works as it should, copy the test version over the live version. (It is best to do this after peak usage hours, and with your store properly and temporarily disabled from within the PrestaShop back-office.)
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Updating PrestaShop
We have a dedicated guide for that: Updating PrestaShop.
Uninstall PrestaShop
PrestaShop is very easy to uninstall:
- Delete the
/prestaShop(or the name you gave it after the installation, if you renamed it) from the current directory of your Web server (generally '/www'). - Delete your PrestaShop database, using phpMyAdmin.
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