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5 minute install comes up on my primary blog?

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  • Started 1 year ago by lakong
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  1. lakong
    Member

    I am trying to get the hive to work using my primary blog as the base blog. I have copies the plugin files to the plugin directory as well as copying the db.php file to my wp-content directory. I then print up a page of my primary blog site. When I refresh the screen or go to another page in my primary site, the wordpress 5 minute install comes up for this site. I do not want to go through with it because I'm concerned it will screw something up in my WP tables. I can bring the site back up by deleting the db.php file, but of course I don't want to do that. I have tried to start from scratch by dropping the two hive tables that were created in my DB and starting again, but the same thing keeps on repeating.

    * The hive does work because any other domains that get pointed to the hive location work just fine. Any ideas?

    - S

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. ikailo
    Developer

    WP Hive is supposed to carry over the prefix for your primary domain on initial install, but it seems like in your case it is trying to create a new one.

    To fix this, when you get the 5 minute install page, update the table 'wphive_hosts' and set the 'prefix' for your primary domain to the same value that is defined for the prefix in the main wp-config.php file.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. lakong
    Member

    Great. It turns out the the prefix was too long and I couldn't change it in the DB. Rather than try to change the length of the field, I just manually changed the prefix of the table names. It was a bit more involved because some other tables referenced the prefix too, but I got it all working. Thanks!

    Question. Your add-in seems almost perfect for what I want. However, ideally when I install a new blog I would like all of the plugins I have in the plugin directory to be active. Is there a way to do this? If not a direct way, do you know one plugin that I can install which would activate all of the others?

    If I update any of the plugins in the plugin directory, do I need to go through all of my blogs which are using it and do anything, or will they be automatically updated?

    Thanks again!

    Posted 1 year ago #

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