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You can also receive a notification about the latest error. Notifications are sent to the shop owner's e-mail address, and you can configure the degree of importance at which you should start receiving such e-mails: use "3" if you only want to know about major issues, "1" if you want to know about everything, even the smallest notice. The default is "5": no notification is sent.
Choose the leverlevel, and click "Save".
Upgrade
This tab features a feature introduced with version 1.4.4 of PrestaShop, and which is still considered experimental: the One-Click Upgrade, which makes it incredible easier to upgrade your PrestaShop install to the latest version... provided you already have PrestaShop 1.4.4 installed.
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If you have the latest version already, the too will simply display "You currently don't need to use this feature."
Starting with the release of PrestaShop 1.4.5, users can upgrade their shop at the click of a button. IMPORTANT: you should make sure to properly backup both your files and your database before attempting an automatic upgrade.
The "Current configuration" section gives you useful information on your current PrestaShop install, and how it might interact with the automatic upgrade:
- Root directory: indicates where PrestaShop is located in your current install.
- Root directory status: indicates if the read/write permissions are correctly set. If not, you will have to change them, using your FTP client. See the Getting Started guide for a quick explanation of how to perform a CHMOD.
- Autoupgrade allowed: indicates whether your install can be upgrade using this tool or not.
- Shop status: indicates if your shop is active or in maintenance mode. It is good practice to put your shop in maintenance mode during the whole process (file backup, database backup, automatic upgrade, verification), so as to prevent customers from losing orders...
- PHP time limit: the automatic upgrade can be a lengthy process, as it needs to download the archive from prestashop.com, unzip it on the server, replace the currently installed files, then trigger the update itself. Hence, the PHP settings might be too low, and break the upgrade altogether, mid-process at worse. In this row, PrestaShop gives you an indication of the current PHP settings. Ideally, it should indicate "disabled".
- Root directory: indicates whether the current access permissions for the root directory are correct. If not, the process will not be able to delete and files.
The "Modify your options" button at the bottom of the section is in fact a link to the "Options" section, at the bottom of the page.
This options enable you to have some control on the upgrade process:
- Don't save images: the upgrade process normally doesn't touch your images folder. If you have made a proper back of all your files, you might wish to let the process take care of that folder too, in order to have a clean install again and re-upload your files. Nevertheless, it not recommended to do this.
- Keep theme "prestashop": the upgrade process overwrites the default theme with its latest incarnation. If you have made changes to the theme directly, you can protect these changes by choosing "Yes". It is NOT recommended to edit the default theme! You should make a copy of the theme, and make changes to that copy.
- Keep translations: same as for the default theme, if you have made changes to the PrestaShop translation files, you can protect theses changes by choosing "Yes".
The update button itself is at the center of the page.
It gives you an indication of your version number, and the number for the latest version available on the PrestaShop servers. If there's a difference, you can click the "Upgrade PrestaShop Now!" button in order to start the upgrade process. A status upgrade then appears at the right, while the process is running.
The area below the "Update" section will then scroll with a list of the various changes brought to your PrestaShop install: removed files (normally, the ones for the default theme), location of the backup archive (normally in the /admin/autoupgrade folder), files added added to said archive, files copied from the new version (and therefore marked as upgraded). A lot of files are thus mentioned, and you do not need to read it all!
You'll know the upgrade when the message "upgrade complete. Please check your front-office (try to make an order, check theme)" appears in green, along with the following status update: "Upgrade process done. Congratulations ! You can now reactive your shop."
Indeed, the auto-updated does deactivate your shop, but does not re-activate it automatically. Until you have checked that everything is okay in your back-office (everything is functioning correctly, all your products and images are there...), it is better to keep your shop from the public eye.
Once you have made sure your install is still correct, active your shop using the option in the "Preferences" tab, at the top of the options list, then make tests on your front-office: browse products, sort them, try to order one, etc. In short, go through the entire buying process, in order to make sure that you won't miss a sale.
Everything working fine? Congratulations, you know have successfully upgraded your PrestaShop install.