diff --git a/lib/htaccess b/lib/htaccess
index 3d3fbc95cf6..35609588ca8 100644
--- a/lib/htaccess
+++ b/lib/htaccess
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ php_value short_open_tag On
 php_value session.auto_start Off
 php_value session.bug_compat_warn Off
 
+### 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 (#)