diff --git a/modules/pref-instances.php b/modules/pref-instances.php
index e365457a0..463dc70c4 100644
--- a/modules/pref-instances.php
+++ b/modules/pref-instances.php
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
 
 		if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
 			print "<div style='padding : 1em'>";
-			print_error("This functionality requires CURL functions. Please enable CURL in your PHP configuration and reload this page.");
+			print_error("This functionality requires CURL functions. Please enable CURL in your PHP configuration (you might also want to disable open_basedir in php.ini) and reload this page.");
 			print "</div>";
 		}