Getting Started Guide

Write down the new name for your admin folder, as you will from now on
access it directly.
Congratulations! Installation is now complete.
Log in to the PrestaShop back-office and start filling out your products
catalog and configuring the many settings to suit your tastes and needs.
Finally, in order to close all potential doors, use your FTP client to update
the files and folders permissions to 664, or 666 if your host requires it. If
it turns out low access rights prevent some modules to work, you should
set permissions back to 755.
Regularly back up your database, ideally on different computers, in case
of problems related to hardware or security.
Misc. information
Keep a test version at hand!
After you have completed setting up your shop to get it just the way you
want it, but before officially opening it to the buying public, we strongly
recommend that you install a local test version on your personal computer
(using WAMP for Windows, MAMP for Mac, or LAMP for Linux, or XAMPP for
any of those platforms), or elsewhere on your hosting server.
This second instance will be useful as a pre-production environment in
which you can carry out all future changes to your PrestaShop online
store, without affecting the live version. This way, if an error should occur,
your live store remains intact and untouched.
This method is for modifying PrestaShop application files only. Do not
use a test version of the SQL database.
After you have confirmed that your test version works as it should, copy
the test version over the live version. It is best to do this after peak usage
hours, and with your store properly and temporarily disabled from within
the PrestaShop back-office.
Checking for the GD library
On a default installation of PHP, the GD Library should be turned on, but if
that's not the case for your install, the standard Windows instructions are:
1. In the root directory of your PHP folder, open the php.ini file.