Installing Prestashop on local computer (Part 1, Installing and configuring WAMP)
When building online shop using any CMS such as Prestashop, OpenCart, TomatoCart etc, I think its better to run the application on local computer first before uploading them to internet so that we can test whether its functionality is exactly as we expected or not.
For this purpose, if you are using PC/Notebook using Windows operating system, we can use WAMP (application that runs Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP scripting language on windows based computer) such as XAMPP, AppServ, etc.
Installing AppServ
In this post, we wil be using AppServ. Download AppServ and follow the instruction below:
Activating mod-rewrite
To use Friendly URL feature in Prestashop, we need to activate mod_rewrite in our Apache :
- Open httpd.conf file in C:\AppServ\Apache2.2\conf
- Find text that contains mod_rewrite (in line 196)
- Delete “#” (without quotes) so the line would be look exactly as the picture below.
- Save and restart Apache service.
Congratulations! now you have a working WAMP on your PC. In the next article, we will start installing & configuring Prestashop.
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