[wp-hackers] Network Installation for multisites

[Utkarsh Dixit]

Going through It.. Thanks for the suggestion. :)


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Madalin Ignisca
<madalin.ignisca at gmail.com>wrote:

> we have wp-cli for automating multisites in seconds. have you tried it? it
> has lots of addons to automate many things.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Utkarsh Dixit <utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Why not even add the "define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );" dynamically
> > using file parsing. We could provide a simple Enable network button to do
> > this. It would certainly be a step towards making the multisite network
> > available and easy to setup (for everyone). I dunno why this wasn't done
> > earlier. Maybe because it was slowing things down? ( file parsing does
> take
> > a large amount of time )
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I'm just wildly guessing here, but maybe one of the reasons is because
> a
> > > multisite network is more complex than a normal WordPress site -
> meaning
> > > that the administrator of a network should have a bit more technical
> > > knowledge and you would most-likely need FTP access to your site
> anyway.
> > >
> > > Besides you already have to add a line of code to your wp-config.php in
> > > order to enable network installation, so it's not a big hassle to put
> the
> > > lines of code yourself.
> > >
> > > Again - that was just a guess, so if anyone has concrete knowledge on
> the
> > > matter I'd be very interested in learning about the reasoning.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Utkarsh Dixit
> > > <utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > While installing the network it is asked of a user to add the
> following
> > > > lines:
> > > >
> > > > define('MULTISITE', true);
> > > > define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
> > > > define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'localhost');
> > > > ......
> > > >
> > > > in the wp-config.php and also various changes are required to be made
> > to
> > > > the .htaccess file.
> > > >
> > > > I'm a little curious as to why can't these changes be made
> > automatically
> > > > using file handling in php? Is there some specific reason for not
> > > > implementing it this way?
> > > > ( Currently using version 3.8 )
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
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