diff --git a/lib/setup.php b/lib/setup.php
index c330729298..d1197b3ebf 100644
--- a/lib/setup.php
+++ b/lib/setup.php
@@ -828,6 +828,10 @@ class OC_Setup {
 		$content.= "AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz\n";
 		$content.= "AddEncoding gzip svgz\n";
 		$content.= "</IfModule>\n";
+		$content.= "<IfModule dir_module>\n";
+		$content.= "DirectoryIndex index.php index.html\n";
+		$content.= "</IfModule>\n";
+		$content.= "AddDefaultCharset utf-8\n";
 		$content.= "Options -Indexes\n";
 		@file_put_contents(OC::$SERVERROOT.'/.htaccess', $content); //supress errors in case we don't have permissions for it