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1. Put your shop in maintenance mode, so as to not lose new customers or orders will moving the data.
   Go to your back-office, and under the "Preference" tab, set the "Enable shop" option to "No".
2. Move your files
   1. Make a backup of all the files: connect to your FTP server, and copy all the files and folders to your local hard-drive.
   2. Transfer your files to your new host: Connect to the FTP server for your new host, and copy all the files and folders that you just downloaded to your local hard-drive, as is.
3. Setting things right
   1. On the new server, open the /config/settings.inc.php file and update the settings for the new database server (with your own settings rather than the examples here):
      • define('_DB_SERVER_', 'sql.domainname.com');
      • define('_DB_NAME_', 'prestashop');
      • define('_DB_USER_', 'PS-user');
      • define('_DB_PASSWD_', 'djsf15');
      • define('_DB_PREFIX_', 'ps_');
   2. (1.4 only) In that same file, update the Base URI setting ('/' being the server root):
      • define('__PS_BASE_URI__', '/prestashop/');
   3. Log-in to your back-office, go to the "Preferences" tab, sub-tab "SEO & URLs", and change the domain name for the new domain. Do the same for the SSL domain.
      In effect, this will update the "PS_SHOP_DOMAIN" and "PS_SHOP_DOMAIN_SSL" rows in the "ps_configuration" SQL table.
   4. In your back-office, go to the "Tools" tab, "Generators" sub-tab, and regenerate both the .htaccess and robots.txt files.
4. Connect to your new FTP server and delete the whole content of the following folders (excepts their index.php files):
   • /tools/smarty/cache
   • /tools/smarty/compile
   • /tools/smarty_v2/cache
   • /tools/smarty_v2/compile
5. Go to your back-office, and under the "Preference" tab, set the "Enable shop" option to "Yes".

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