Help with Serendipity installation

[SancLunatic]

I'm having a little difficult time with this section of the installation.

http://www.s9y.org/36.html#A3

Specifically here:

For full operation, Serendipity relies on .htaccess files that your Virtual Host? must allow. For Apache, this requires the "Allow Override? File Info? Indexes Limit" (or "Allow Override? All") option set to the directory of your Serendipity installation.

and here:

It is very much suggested to DISABLE the register_globals, session.use_trans_sid and magic_quotes_* directives of PHP.

I don't know how to check or do any of those. Can someone help me out?

[SancLunatic]

Can someone help?

[garrettroyce]

You don't need to do anything about the .htaccess, there's nothing you can do about it anyways for what it's saying. You can override PHP settings in your htaccess file, just make sure the installation doesn't overwrite them.

#.htaccess
php_value register_globals 0
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0