short_open_tags

I suggest to make short_open_tags on as default . It's currently off by default , many scripts are using it and it'll make a lot of confusions about php and server untill the manager find the reason. It has widely used by themes of wordpress, ...

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Actually, you can enable this by default by editing /etc/php.ini and setting it there .. this will be copied to new domains. On my CentOS 5 system, it is already enabled by default.