PrestaShop Manager

Install and manage PrestaShop sites in an existing domain, via PrestaShop's own install/index_cli.php CLI installer — deliberately simpler than the WordPress Manager: no dedicated PrestaShop Manager sidebar page, no cloning, no filesystem scan for existing installs, no hardening rules, and no dedicated backup system. Install, a read-only overview with live status, cache clearing, one-time admin login, error logs, and uninstall.

Install PrestaShop

Navigate to HiTechCloud > AutoInstaller and click Install PrestaShop.

On the install page, configure:

Domain – The domain (and optional subfolder) to install into. Leave the subfolder blank to install at the domain root.
PrestaShop version – Latest, or pin to a specific release, fetched live from GitHub's releases API (only versions that actually ship a downloadable prestashop_<version>.zip release asset are listed).
Admin first/last name / password / email – The initial administrator account PrestaShop creates during install. Leave the password blank to generate one.

Behind the scenes, this downloads the matching prestashop_<version>.zip GitHub release asset (a two-layer package: the outer zip contains an inner prestashop.zip, which is the actual flat-root application), extracts it into the docroot, creates a dedicated MySQL/MariaDB database, and runs PrestaShop's own install/index_cli.php CLI installer with the details you provided. Immediately afterward, HiTechCloud renames the admin/ directory to a random name and removes the leftover install/ folder — PrestaShop's own admin panel does this rename automatically the first time anyone visits it in a browser, but doing it right away means the directory is never left at the guessable default. Progress is streamed live as each step completes.

Manage a PrestaShop site

Every PrestaShop install shows up on the general Site Manager page (/sites) alongside your other websites. Click Manage on a PrestaShop site to open its overview page:

Screenshot and PrestaShop / PHP / MariaDB / Created status cards, matching the other CMS managers.
Files – Docroot path, a File Manager shortcut, and live folder size.
Database – Host, name, table prefix, and password (read live from app/config/parameters.php, not stored anywhere separately), plus a phpMyAdmin shortcut.
PHP version – Editable for root-level installs; subdirectory installs inherit the domain's PHP version.

The Login as Admin button generates a one-time login link and opens the PrestaShop back office already authenticated, without needing the admin password. PrestaShop core has no built-in CLI command for this, so HiTechCloud deploys a small login helper file into the (randomly-named) admin directory at install time that binds an employee session the same way PrestaShop's own login controller does after a successful password check — it never touches password verification itself. Each click issues a fresh token valid for 10 minutes and usable once.

Cache

The Cache widget clears PrestaShop's Symfony production cache (bin/console cache:clear --env=prod), PrestaShop's standard, documented cache-clearing mechanism.

Logs

The Logs tab shows the tail of the newest file under var/logs/ — PrestaShop's Symfony logger writes one file per environment per day (e.g. prod-2026-08-15.log).

Remove

The Remove tab's Delete Application button fully uninstalls the site: drops the database and database user, deletes every file in the docroot, and removes it from Site Manager. This cannot be undone.

Not included

To keep this feature simple, the following are not part of PrestaShop support (unlike the WordPress Manager):

A dedicated "PrestaShop Manager" sidebar page — manage installed sites from Site Manager instead
Cloning a site
Scanning the filesystem for untracked installations
Security hardening rules
Module/theme installation (install additional PrestaShop modules from its own back office after setup)
A dedicated backup/restore system (use the account-level Backups feature instead)
Only MySQL/MariaDB databases are supported