Uploading PrestaShop to a Server

Once you’ve downloaded PrestaShop, you can upload it to your server using an FTP client like Filezilla.  There are two ways you can do this.  If your server’s control panel allows it, you can upload the PrestaShop archive and then extract it directly on your server.  This is the fastest and least error-prone way of uploading, since the PrestaShop archive is smaller than the extracted files and you don’t have to worry about your FTP client skipping a file.  Remember to delete the PrestaShop archive off your server after extracting it.  If your server doesn’t allow you to extract archives, you will need to extract the archive on your computer using Windows or your preferred zip software like WinZip or 7zip, and then upload all the files using your FTP client.

Once you’ve uploaded all of PrestaShop’s files to your server, check to make sure all the directories have chmod 755 permissions and all files have chmod 644 permissions.