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November 16, 2008

How many of you remember the famous 5-minute installation? You should; it is still on the WordPress.org home page. Unfortunately the claim is well past its sell-by date. The WordPress installation just doesn’t cut it any more.

In the past few days I have installed Chyrp, Symphony, Habari, and WordPress. All of them except WordPress have an installation process that consists of simply navigating to the site. There is no need to rename the config file, it asks you the questions it needs to know. Drupal and Joomla also do this.

Check out these examples:

Nothing I’m saying here is new, these installers have been around for a long time, so isn’t it about time that installation didn’t require editing a config file?

Update: Thanks to Omar I now know that there is an installer for this and it isn’t necessary to create the config file at all. And I’ve been following the bloody instructions all these years!! Cripes!

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 Andrew Rickmann

In that case I apologise for misconstruing your intent.

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 S

That's what i meant

Monday, 5pm
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Crikey, you're right. I have never tried to install without having followed the instructions, i.e. the requirement to manually edit the file.

If only I'd known before now.

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 Omar

I must say, you dont realy need to edit the config file, if the file dosnt exist wordpress will show a form for you to create it from the instalation page.

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 Andrew Rickmann

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Is there a technical reason why that would be?

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S

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 S

How do you install WordPress? There is a installer since a long time ago.

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 Andrea_R

Funnily enough, in WordpressMU, the install process writes the config file. If you try and edit it beforehand, like the single user version, you'll screw it up.