diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 08e2a82facb..fa6263c7ffe 100755
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -38,3 +38,6 @@ DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options -Indexes
+
+ ModPagespeed Off
+
diff --git a/lib/private/setup.php b/lib/private/setup.php
index b5c530a091f..5232398d1d7 100644
--- a/lib/private/setup.php
+++ b/lib/private/setup.php
@@ -159,6 +159,9 @@ class OC_Setup {
$content.= "\n";
$content.= "AddDefaultCharset utf-8\n";
$content.= "Options -Indexes\n";
+ $content.= "\n";
+ $content.= "ModPagespeed Off\n";
+ $content.= "\n";
@file_put_contents(OC::$SERVERROOT.'/.htaccess', $content); //supress errors in case we don't have permissions for it
self::protectDataDirectory();