Start Apache and MySQL with the Xampp control panel in order to enable the access to Once these services are running, navigate to PHPMyAdmin and create a new database for your PrestaShop project with the name you want (in this case will be ourcodeworld-store), in case you want to provide a password, save the databasename and password as you'll need it later. Then we need to create an empty database and setup the VirtualHost and the local domain in Windows.
Now, your project is structurally ready to be installed. zip of PrestaShop inside of the folder of your project: Once you know where the htdocs folder in xampp is located, then create a new folder (with the name of your project) inside, in this case our project will be ourcodeworld-store, and then extract all the content of the.
Normally, with a default installation of Xampp in Windows, the directory of the htdocs folder is C:\xampp\htdocs. Anything you want web-viewable needs to be inside htdocs. The htdocs is the directory that the web server software (Apache) looks for files to serve on your domain, it is located inside the Xampp installation folder. The file size is about 58MB compressed and it contains a lot of folders and files, they compose our new PrestaShop project. zip distribution of PrestaShop in the official website here (in this article we are going to use the version 1.7).