[wp-hackers] Network Installation for multisites

[Nikola Nikolov]

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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