[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19667: Allow for wp-config.php to be multiple levels up (for sub-directory installs)

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#19667: Allow for wp-config.php to be multiple levels up (for sub-directory
installs)
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 Reporter:  Master Jake  |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Security     |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 Currently, you can leave wp-config.php in the standard installation
 directory of WordPress or move it up one level. At work, we generally
 install WordPress in root and move wp-config.php up one level (out of the
 servers content directory) for security purposes. It would be nice if we
 could do this with sub-directory installs as well (e.g. install in
 /wordpress and put wp-config.php in /../ [2 levels up]).

 Perhaps we could use some sort of recursive directory search that starts
 in the WordPress install directory and continues going up levels until it
 finds a wp-config.php file (if one exists). There should, of course, be
 some cut off level to stop searching at. I think that one level above the
 document root would be sufficient.

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