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-# On some PHP servers it may help if this file is copied
-# to the main moodle directory and renamed .htaccess
-#
-# As soon as you do this, check your web site. Is it
-# still working OK? If you are getting a "configuration
-# error" then you may need to enable overrides by editing
-# the main httpd.conf for Apache and in the main server
-# or virtual server area, adding something like:
-#
-#
-# AllowOverride All
-#
-#
-
-### Firstly, if you are using Apache 2, you need the following
-### three lines to allow Apache to pass a PATH_INFO variable
-### correctly for URLs like http://server/file.php/arg1/arg2
-
-
- AcceptPathInfo on
-
-
-### Secondly, you can define the default files in the Moodle
-### directories as follows:
-
-DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
-
-### Thirdly, set up some PHP variables that Moodle needs
-
-php_flag file_uploads 1
-php_flag short_open_tag 1
-php_flag session.auto_start 0
-php_flag session.bug_compat_warn 0
-
-### Fourthly, sometimes Apache limits the size of uploaded files
-### (this is a separate limit to the one in PHP, see below).
-### The setting here turns off this limitation
-
-LimitRequestBody 0
-
-
-### These are optional - you may not want to override php.ini
-### To enable them, remove the leading hash (#)
-
-#php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
-#php_value post_max_size 2M
-#php_value session.gc_maxlifetime 7200
-
-
-### You can change the following line to point to the
-### error/index.php file in your Moodle distribution.
-### It provides a form which emails you (the admin)
-### about 404 errors (URL not found).
-
-#ErrorDocument 404 http://example.org/moodle/error/index.php
-
-
-### People have reported that these can help in some cases
-### (unusual) when you see errors about undefined functions
-
-#php_value auto_prepend_file none
-#php_value include_path .
-
-