OK to install Prestashop on a page of my website?

Business
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Hey Folks,

My CPanel makes Softaculous available, which I’m hoping makes it easy to install PrestaShop.

I’m thinking of installing it on a page of my website. Is this a good idea?

If so, should I create a whole new page for it?

There is already a page where I offer drums for sale via ECWID (free version), but I’ve had very poor results with this. If I install PS on that page, what would happen to the old content?

I’m so grateful that you’re here.

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I think better will be to create a new page for it, to avoid any errors

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Thanks MivoCloud.

This is new to me, so I don’t know what exactly results from an installation.

My concern about using the already existing page for the installation is that it would overwrite the content already there. If so, could I then recover the content if something went wrong with the installation (your concern?).

Perhaps the installation goes well but PrestaShop is not for me. Could I then undo the changes?

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This is one of the reasons why you need another page, and ideally, first try Prestashop separately on another server/PC and see if it suits you before installing it on the base.

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I think it is much better to create a completely new site with Prestashop (or any other cms) and not create a single page to insert into an existing site.

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I’ve gone ahead and installed PS as an additional page. For anyone wondering, Softaculous really did make it easy.

Now that I’ve installed PS and can see the results, I understand your point of view. PS seems designed to do exactly that - create an ecommerce website.

Still, I think it would take more time to migrate my whole site than to just create one new page. Of course, it will also take time to customize the new page to suit the old site. That’s what I’m currently working on.

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Hope you have no errors and will do everything fast :slight_smile: