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You also need to know which URL on your domain you want your shop(s) to be accessible from.
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Installing PrestaShop on the Web
Finding a host
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 (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_hosting_service), which provides you with an online home for a monthly or yearly fee.
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If you've never bought a domain name, here are some registrar registrars that you can trust:
- Bookmyname: http://www.bookmyname.com/
- Gandi: http://www.gandi.net/
- Namecheap: http://www.namecheap.com/
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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 timezonetime 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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Here are a few well-known FTP clientclients:
- Windows
- CoreFTP: http://www.coreftp.com/
- WinSCP: http://winscp.net/
- SmartFTP: http://www.smartftp.com/
- Mac OS X
- Cyberduck: http://cyberduck.ch/
- Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/
- Fetch: http://fetchsoftworks.com/fetch/
- Unix/Linux
- gFTP: http://gftp.seul.org/
- kasablanca: http://kasablanca.berlios.de/
- NcFTP: http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/
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- At the root of the domain: http://www.myprestashop.com/
- In a folder: http://www.myprestashop.com/shop/
- In a sub-domain: http://store.myprestashop.com/
- In a folder of a sub-domain: http://clothes.myprestashop.com/boutique/
Note that thanks to the multishop multistore feature, you can have as many shops as necessary with a single installation of PrestaShop 1.5, each with its own specific URL. Take that into account when deciding what goes where.
Whatever your plan, the default shop will always reside where PrestaShop itself is located.
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Installing PrestaShop on your computer
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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