diff --git a/lib/setup.php b/lib/setup.php
index afe56126277d4449519e02192aaa94b4d5f979aa..ecdf44b9f970345a4b4d63470c5ccf0767708936 100644
--- a/lib/setup.php
+++ b/lib/setup.php
@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@ class OC_Setup {
 		$content.= "Options -Indexes\n";
 		@file_put_contents($SERVERROOT.'/.htaccess', $content); //supress errors in case we don't have permissions for it
 
-		$content = "deny from all";
+		$content = "deny from all\n";
+		$content.= "IndexIgnore *";
 		file_put_contents(OC_Config::getValue('datadirectory', $SERVERROOT.'/data').'/.htaccess', $content);
 	}
 }