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System: Unix, Linux or Windows.
Web serve: Apache Web Server 1.3 or any later version.
PHP: 5.2 or later.
MySQL: 5.0 or later.
At least 32 Mb of RAM. 64 Mb is more comfy, the more the better...
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PrestaShop can work with PHP 5.1.3 or later, but versions inferior to 5.2 have bugs that might prevent some functionalities to work as expected (such as invalid date time zone).PrestaShop can also work with Microsoft's IIS Web server 6.0 or later, and nginx 1.0 or later. |
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You can read the Getting Started guide for more details: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15PS16/Getting+Started.
Configuring PrestaShop
By default, PrestaShop is configured to provide a secure and stable environment to both the shop administrator and the customers.
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When your development has an impact on the front-officefront office, whether you are building a theme or simply a module which displays information to the customer, you should force the template file compilation and disable the cache, so as to always see the result of your changes directly.
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config.inc.phpdefines.inc.phpsmarty..config.inc.php
config.inc.php
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When in production mode, On the other hand, when editing a Note that this setting can be made directly from the back - office, in the "Performance" page under the "Advanced parameters" menu. |
Keeping things secure
Once your module is online, its files could be accessed by anyone from the Internet. Even if they cannot trigger anything but PHP errors, you might want to prevent this from happening.
You can achieve this by adding a index.php file at the root of any module folder you create. Here is a suggestion for what to put in the file.
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header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s")." GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Location: ../");
exit; |