[wp-hackers] Network Installation for multisites

[Utkarsh Dixit]

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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