Prestashop does not run locally (XAMPP, Windows 10)

Question

I migrated prestashop 1.4 (all the files) from the live site, to my computer and imported the database successfully to htdocs/prestashop Now I go to http://localhost/prestashop/ and it shows nothing but this

"This page isn’t working

localhost is currently unable to handle this request. HTTP ERROR 500"

Answer 1

You are trying to run PS 1.4 on php7.

mysql_connect was deprecated in php5.5 and completely removed in php7.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php