Setup PrestaShop

Setup PrestaShop

This example installs PrestaShop 8 inside the Devilbox PHP container, creates a MySQL database, and serves the project through the standard htdocs document root.

Overview

Project name	Container path	Database	TLD_SUFFIX	Project URL
my-presta	/shared/httpd/my-presta	my_presta	lvh.me	http://my-presta.lvh.me / https://my-presta.lvh.me

Projects live in /shared/httpd/ in the PHP container and ./data/www/ on the host.

Prerequisites

• Devilbox with a PHP version supported by your PrestaShop 8 patch release.
• HTTPD, MySQL, and Bind services.
• Composer and Git available in the PHP container.

Start the stack:

./dvl.sh up php httpd mysql bind

Caution

PrestaShop’s PHP support matrix is patch-level specific. Use PHP 8.3 only with a PrestaShop release that explicitly supports it; otherwise choose the matching versioned PHP container from env-example.

Walk through

It will be ready in seven steps:

1. Enter the PHP container.
2. Create a new virtual host directory.
3. Install PrestaShop 8.
4. Link the document root.
5. Add the MySQL database.
6. Verify DNS.
7. Open the installer.

1. Enter the PHP container

./dvl.sh shell php83

2. Create the vhost directory

mkdir -p /shared/httpd/my-presta
cd /shared/httpd/my-presta

3. Install PrestaShop 8

Download a current PrestaShop 8 release archive or clone the repository and check out a stable 8.x tag:

git clone https://github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop
cd PrestaShop
git checkout 8.2.0
composer install

Expected structure from the vhost directory:

tree -L 1
.
└── PrestaShop

4. Link the document root

cd /shared/httpd/my-presta
ln -s PrestaShop htdocs

5. Add the MySQL database

mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p -e 'CREATE DATABASE my_presta CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;'

6. Verify DNS

my-presta.lvh.me resolves to localhost by default. Add a hosts entry only for custom suffixes.

7. Open the installer

Visit http://my-presta.lvh.me or https://my-presta.lvh.me and follow the installation steps.

Use these database values:

• Database server: 127.0.0.1
• Database user: root
• Database password: your .env value
• Database name: my_presta

Next steps

• Remove the installer directory if PrestaShop requires manual cleanup.
• Use Adminer or phpMyAdmin from the Devilbox intranet for database checks.
• Configure HTTPS trust and mail settings for local testing.