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PHP
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-For security reasons, it's very important that PHP be configured as follows:
-
1. Don't display error messages to the browser. This is almost always
turned off but sometimes when you're testing you turn this on and forget
to reset it.
-2. GLOBAL variables must be turned off. This is one of the first things
+2. If your PHP is compiled with memory limit checks, the default is 8MB
+which is much too small. You should increase this to at least 32MB or 64MB
+to avoid PHP out of memory errors. Look for "memory_limit" in your php.ini
+file.
+
+3. GLOBAL variables must be turned off. This is one of the first things
any security aware admin will do. These days the default is for it to
be off!
-3. If you want to restrict blog signups, set the restrict domain email
-setting in the admin.
-
The easiest way of configuring it is via the .htaccess file that is
created during the install. If you haven't installed WPMU yet then edit
the file htaccess.dist in this directory and add these two lines at the
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ register_globals = Off
You'll have to restart Apache after you modify your php.ini for the
settings to be updated.
+4. If you want to restrict blog signups, set the restrict domain email
+setting in the admin.
+
UPGRADING
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