Installing PortaShop locally on ubuntu 14.04

These are the steps I took:

1. Install apache2, mysql, php5 and other requirements: php5-mysql, php5-mcrypt, and php5-gd.
2. Create a database called "prestashop" and a database user qith all permissions on it.
3. Download the site files at: http://www.prestashop.com/en/download. Mine were "prestashop_1.6.0.9.zip"
4. Uncompress it and copy the top directory called "prestashop" to where the web application will be stored. I'll use "/path/to/prestashop" from now on.
5. Make sure the permissions in the directory allow the web server user "www-data" to have full access to it. As root run:

1. chgrp -R www-data /path/to/prestashop

2. chmod -R g+rwx /path/to/prestashop

6. Create a new virtual host with the name "dev.prestashop.local"
1. Add the new host name to the hosts file, adding the line "127.0.0.1  dev.prestashop.local"
2. Copy the file /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf to /etc/apache2/sites-available/prestashop.conf
3. Modify its content to:

<VirtualHost *:80>

 ServerName dev.prestashop.local

 DocumentRoot /path/to/prestashop

  <Directory /path/to/prestashop >

   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

   AllowOverride all

   Require all granted

  </Directory>

  ...

</VirtualHost>

7. Reload apache, running as root: service apache2 reload

When you browse to dev.prestashop.local you should be able to pass all the compatibility tests: