diff -u b/core/modules/system/system.install b/core/modules/system/system.install
--- b/core/modules/system/system.install
+++ b/core/modules/system/system.install
@@ -634,7 +634,8 @@
   }
 
   // Check if xdebug.max_nesting_level is below 256, as it crashes some pages.
-  if (extension_loaded('xdebug') && ini_get('xdebug.max_nesting_level') < 256) {
+  $xdebug_nesting_level = 256;
+  if (extension_loaded('xdebug') && ini_get('xdebug.max_nesting_level') < $xdebug_nesting_level) {
 
     // Report on where correct ini file is to user.
     $ini_scanned_files = php_ini_scanned_files();
@@ -649,11 +650,9 @@
       }
     }
 
+    $description = t('A max_nesting_level lower than @lvl will cause some pages in your Drupal site to crash. To fix this it is recommended to set xdebug.max_nesting_level=@lvl in your PHP configuration for Xdebug.', array('@lvl' => $xdebug_nesting_level));
     if ($ini_location !== FALSE) {
-      $description = t('A max_nesting_level lower than 256 will cause some pages in your Drupal site to crash. To fix this it is recommended to set <em>xdebug.max_nesting_level=256</em> in your PHP configuration for Xdebug in %iniLocation.', array('%iniLocation' => $ini_location));
-    }
-    else {
-      $description = t('A max_nesting_level lower than 256 will cause some pages in your Drupal site to crash. To fix this it is recommended to set <em>xdebug.max_nesting_level=256</em> in your PHP configuration for Xdebug.');
+      $description .= ' ' . t('Your Xdebug configuration is located in @iniLocation.', array('@iniLocation' => $ini_location));
     }
 
     $requirements['xdebug_max_nesting_level'] = array(
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ AddEncoding gzip svgz
   php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
   php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
   php_flag mbstring.encoding_translation    off
+  php_value xdebug.max_nesting_level        256
 </IfModule>
 
 # Requires mod_expires to be enabled.