PrestaShop sends various data to your email – orders, contact form messages, notifications, etc. You only enter the email once during PrestaShop installation, but if you need to change it later, there are several places you may need to check.
Here are the most common situations:
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Most frequently you may need to change database settings after moving to new hosting.
Here is how you can do that:
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It’s really simple, you can do it in your Back Office.
This tutorial is relevant for PrestaShop 1.5 and 1.6. There is no such functionality in PS 1.7 by default.
Here’s what you need to do:
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If you have multiple languages installed in your shop, then all URLs will include language code. And even when you open the home page of your site you’ll get that language suffix, even for default language. It doesn’t look fine but fortunately you can fix this behavior.
This tutorial describes how to remove default language code from your URLs (usually “/en”).
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Sometimes during the work on the site you may want to make it temporarily inaccessible for visitors. In PrestaShop you can use maintenance mode for such purposes.
It may be useful during initial website development or while updating etc.
This article describes how to enable maintenance mode.
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Sometimes you may need to clear the cache of your PrestaShop website. Basically, it’s necessary when you’ve made some changes to your site, but they are not displayed.
This article describes how to clear Smarty Cache and all other cache types.
So you want to create a new page. It’s really easy, you just need to write a few lines of code.
This tutorial is for PrestaShop 1.6. Other versions are similar but can slightly differ.
Continue reading How to create a new page using module front controller
Sometimes you might want to see detailed error reports in your PrestaShop store.
You just need this information when you see a blank error page or short text: “Error 500”.
Here are short instructions to see PrestaShop debug information.
Continue reading How to turn on error reporting in PrestaShop
Back Office language can be set separately for every employee. And for changing it you need to go to the employee’s settings.
Continue reading How to change Back Office language in PrestaShop
You may want to change database information after moving your site to a new server or after changing database credentials.
If you need to modify db name or password, you have to edit the settings file. You can do it by using a FTP client (for example Filezilla).
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