Offer remote install-script as installer option

[youngmicroserf]

I've just tried this script

​http://instantinstall.org/

and I wondered if it weren't a useful addition to have an officially supported remote install script for WP. So people could download the script instead of the entire package, upload it to their servers and let them do the heavy lifting. This would be particularly useful for people who regularly set up WP for clients.

Having a wp.org supported script would be great for people who are weary of using third party code.

[nacin]

There's also ​http://wpquickinstall.com/

[dd32]

Replying to nacin:

There's also ​http://wpquickinstall.com/

And before someone complains it's out of date, It's on the makeover list right now.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Scary script... part 1

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Scary script, part2

[kurtpayne]

I think this is a good idea. I've seen several versions of this concept, with ​tinywp being the only one that was just a download bootstrapper. In my opinion, it was too bare bones. Also, I didn't see it submitted as a patch ;-).

Unlinke other third party tools (hat tip to ​wpquickinstall), the version I submitted, wp-install.php​, is not an installer replacement. It's a download bootstrapper, with as much compatibility as I could cram in.

It will use curl, fopen, and fsockopen to connect to wordpress.org, it has support for ziparchive as well as pclzip (hosted on my test site currently, but should be hosted on wp.org), is styled with the WP style, works on the command line as well as in the browser, and will perform a safety-check before overwriting any files.

Thoughts?

[nacin]

Very little traction. Hosting companies mostly handle this these days. Beyond that, svn, git, and wp-cli handle it for developers. How often does a user actually download a zip and upload it? Much less often now than five years ago.

Kurt, if you still think your nifty script is relevant in 2014, feel free to reopen.