Mahara should not overwrite web server configuration

[François Marier]

We currently ship a .htaccess with Mahara. I would like to suggest that we shouldn't be messing with people web server configuration. We should provide guidance as to how to configure it right (on the wiki already) and issue errors and warnings when we detect that certain settings are wrong.

The current .htaccess has a few problems:

- it prevents people from installing Mahara in some cases (e.g. http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=2728)
- it assumes that people will be running Apache

[François Marier (fmarier)]

We also need to modify the magic_quotes error message to include the .htaccess stuff that people on shared hosting need to add.

[Richard Mansfield (richard-mansfield)]

... and also the register_globals message.

Not sure there's much we can do about the max upload file size, we'll just have to add something to the wiki I guess.