Site cannot be converted to multisite from existing installation

[rmccue]

If you provision a site (including running wp core install), then turn multisite mode on, the site will fail with a "missing tables" message.

[scribu]

Could you post a list of WP-CLI calls that reproduce the issue?

Also, have you tried using wp core multisite-install instead?

[rmccue]

@scribu This currently uses wp core multisite-install, but only if wp core is-installed is false. Here's the buggy process:

1. Provision without the multisite flag:

   exec {"wp install $location":
       command => "wp core install",
       unless => 'wp core is-installed'
   }

2. Turn on multisite in the config

3. Reprovision:

   exec {"wp install $location":
       command => "wp core multisite-install",
       unless => 'wp core is-installed'
   }

The issue here is that it only tries multisite-install if is-installed is false. Instead, what we could do is:

exec {"wp install $location":
    command => "wp core install",
    unless => 'wp core is-installed'
}
if ( $multisite ) {
    exec {"wp multisite-convert $location":
        command => "wp core multisite-convert",
        unless => 'wp core is-installed --network'
    }
}

(What we really need is an is-multisite command, but is-installed --network should give the same result.)

[rmccue]

Went with is-multisite instead in wp-cli/wp-cli#977

[rmccue]

No longer blocked upstream.

[mdmoreau]

Has this been fixed? Ran into the issue earlier today, so I'm not sure if it's a problem with my config or something else. It was a brand new project, so vagrant destroy/up did the trick.