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Technical requirements

Before downloading or installing anything, you need to provide a home for your PrestaShop online store. This means its files need to reside on a Web server. You might have a Web server of your own, but it is more likely that you have or will have your shop hosted by an Internet hosting service, which provides you with an online home for a few dollars per month.

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More information is available for system administrators in the System Administrators Guide.

Setting up a local environment

This guide is mainly targeted at users wishing to install PrestaShop on a remote server/host.

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