.htaccess, php, secure issue

[dreamwiz]

First of all - I only bring this topic up because it's not that old and many may find it useful.

If you run PHP in CGI mode and your upgrading to PHP 5.1.x, per-directory php.ini will NOT be supported anymore. PHP says this has been removed because it was not a documented feature. Maybe you wanna use .htaccess instead... though you cant do everything with it neither.

[Spiral]

I don't recommend ever having register_globals turned on!

If you have a client that is using an old outdated script still requiring
register_globals, I'd recommend that they either upgrade the script
to a version that doesn't require register_globals or modify the script
to not need register_globals.

Incidentally, it's rediculously trivial to change a script to not need
register_globals and generally involves only adding a couple lines
of code to the beginning of the script!