From 52dad329cb81665448b0f099baa1a7fc21bf704e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: donncha Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:57:16 +0000 Subject: PHP usually needs more memory git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk@905 7be80a69-a1ef-0310-a953-fb0f7c49ff36 --- README.txt | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.txt') diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 2ddbb06..5272237 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -75,19 +75,19 @@ http://photomatt.net/2003/10/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/ PHP === -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 ========= -- cgit