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To enable one of these configuration instructions, all you have to do is remove the # character. To disable the configuration instruction, a # is included before its line as well, instructing the computer to ignore the line. In some cases, a configuration file may include a configuration option that’s disabled by default. The # before each line tells the computer that this is a comment line – the computer should ignore it, skip over it, and try to interpret the next line that doesn’t begin with a #.

These comments aren’t for the computer – they exist to explain the format of the configuration file to anyone reading it.

In addition to actual configuration directives, these files can contain comments. To understand what exactly this means and why we’re referring to “uncommenting” or “commenting out” lines rather than “enabling” or “disabling” them, it’s important to understand the structure of a configuration file. Save the configuration file after making these changes. # Comment out the line below to disable feature Y

To comment out a line, you’d follow this process in reverse.