Saturday, April 21, 2012

PrestaShip Tips - How to manually upload big file for downloadbale products

Problem
Some PrestaShop owners are struggling to manage their big size downloadable products, because the web application has upload file size limitations. 

Solution
Here is a simple tips help you walk around the problem. The idea is upload your downloadable product file with other tools such as FTP tool, your control panel file manager(if it allow upload large file).

Here are the steps to follow:
1. Create you product with downloadable. upload a small file. (you will replace it later)
2. Go to your database to check the physically_filename of the product in the table ps_product_download
3. Upload the big file to following folder
YourSiteRoot/download
4. rename the uploaded file to the file name to looked up in above 2.

Hope that will help you solve you problem

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