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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Time for action – restoring your files


  1. Open an FTP connection to your web server.

  2. Delete all the PrestaShop files on your web server.

  3. Upload all the backup files. Be sure to upload them in the exact same structure in which they existed previously. For example, if you stored the backup files in a folder, don't upload the folder they were stored in as well.

  4. As with backing up your files, if you get errors when dragging all the files and folders at once, retry doing the process using a folder or two at a time. Don't forget the "loose" files that reside in the main directory and not in any of the PrestaShop folders.

  5. Visit your shop front and the PrestaShop control panel to see if they are working.

  6. Breathe a sigh of relief.

What just happened?

You have just deployed a backup of your store.

Assessing what went wrong

The first thing to do is check whether you have the latest version of PrestaShop installed. Upgrading is covered in a minute. Other than that, the causes of a hack attack can be difficult...