diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 6222b623c6..6956d0225c 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
 # AllowOverride FileInfo
 # 
 # to enable parsing off this file
-# This is needed for UTF-8 support.
 #
-# AddDefaultCharset Off
+php_value memory_limit 32M
+php_value max_execution_time 60
+php_flag register_globals Off
+php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
+php_flag magic_quotes_runtime Off
+# settings for the file upload, you might increase them further
+php_value upload_max_filesize 16M
+# session handling: now the check for expired sessions is done on every 10th session creation
+php_flag session.use_trans_sid Off
+php_value session.gc_probability 1
+php_value session.gc_divisor 10
+# multibyte extension: needed for utf-8
+php_value mbstring.func_overload 7