Refs #2940 added php settings comments into trunk

git-svn-id: http://code.elgg.org/elgg/trunk@8885 36083f99-b078-4883-b0ff-0f9b5a30f544

diff --git a/htaccess_dist b/htaccess_dist
index c2f1445750b0be4fa55e4b97999d53387e0c0ecb..3acdd2a320b7f9612101968d8150b1866691c053 100644 (file)
--- a/htaccess_dist
+++ b/htaccess_dist
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@ DirectoryIndex index.php
 
 # php 5, apache 1 and 2
 <IfModule mod_php5.c>
-       # default memory limit to 64Mb
+       # limit the maximum memory consumed by the php script to 64 MB
        php_value memory_limit 64M
-       # to make sure register global is off
+       # register_globals is deprecated as of PHP 5.3.0 - disable it for security reasons.
        php_value register_globals 0
-       # max post size to 8Mb
+       # post_max_size is the maximum size of ALL the data that is POST'ed to php at a time (8 MB)
        php_value post_max_size 8388608
-       # upload size limit to 5Mb
+       # upload_max_filesize is the maximum size of a single uploaded file (5 MB)
        php_value upload_max_filesize 5242880
-       # hide errors, enable only if debug enabled
+       # on development servers, set to 1 to display errors. Set to 0 on production servers.
        php_value display_errors 0
 </IfModule>