<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anton</b> <<a href="mailto:anton.list@gmail.com">anton.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/10/06, Anisa <<a href="mailto:mystavash@animecards.org">mystavash@animecards.org</a>> wrote:<br>> OK, I got it! But, I don't know that I agree. Well, I agree that Step 3 is<br>> the crucial hard part, and not many people know there IS a step 3 (since
<br>> it's not mentioned in the install.txt *ahem!*). But there's a bit of trial<br>> and error involved, whereas the database is (for your average install)<br>> straightforward, and you don't have too many places to go wrong in the
<br>> settings.php file. I think it would confuse the issue more to go backwards.<br>><br>> It's not like we're stopping them from skipping to step 3. :)<br><br>My main point is that if you try to configure the database or the
<br>sites directory first - you have no way of testing whether or not you<br>did it properly as you need the pointing stuff working to be able to<br>test it. It is like a prerequisite step for multisite.<br><br>If you configure the pointing step first, you can test whether or not
<br>that step was done right before adding other variables to the<br>equation.</blockquote><div><br>How? <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
An important troubleshooting technique (for anything) is breaking<br>things down into individual testable parts and only changing one thing<br>at once.<br><br>Without that, you have too many variables to try at once and<br>
troubleshooting just ends up as random guesswork or voodoo.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Tell ya what, <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> discussing which step goes first, let's get all the stuff down. I'm not seeing anyone else offer up documentation for this, which I think is shocking, really, considering it's really important, and surely ya'll know a heck of a lot more about it than me.
<br><br>Of course, having it be <span style="font-style: italic;">good</span> documentation is important, but there's nothing there, it's just a huge big gaping hole. <br><br>I'm sorry if I'm a little impatient, but this is not a difficult thing! It's a completely doable thing! Ne? So, let's just get it all down, and then figure out what's the best way to present the information given.
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