Title: Is the Multisite setup information wrong?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Is the Multisite setup information wrong?

 *  [chris howard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrishoward/)
 * (@chrishoward)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-the-multisite-setup-information-wrong/)
 * After switching to multisite buy following the instructions at [Create a Network](http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network)
   I do an “Error establishing database connection”.
 * After searching, and finding this post [Database error after installing multisite](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-multisite-yields-error-establishing-database-connection-error?replies=21),
   one guy said you need to include:
 * `define('MULTISITE', true);`
 * I added that line and now it works just fine. That is, my config now contains:
 *     ```
       define('MULTISITE', true);
       define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
       define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
       $base = '/~chris/wptestenvir/';
       define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'chris-howards-imac.local' );
       define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/~chris/wptestenvir/' );
       define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
       ```
   
 * However, that instruction is nowhere in the “Create a Network” instructions.
 * Is the fault in the documentation or in WP itself? Or is it something else?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-the-multisite-setup-information-wrong/#post-2750794)
 * It’s the fault of you misreading something 🙂
 * After you add `define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);` you’re told to go to [http://example.com/wp-admin/network/setup.php](http://example.com/wp-admin/network/setup.php)
   right? And THERE it has more code to paste into your wp-config.php and .htaccess
 * `define('MULTISITE', true);` is the first line. You didn’t do a full copy/paste(
   this happens a lot, people think that having WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE is the same thing.)

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## Tags

 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-the-multisite-setup-information-wrong/#post-2750794)
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