diff --git a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
index a0006c9e7..25c41fc6b 100644
--- a/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
+++ b/htroot/SettingsAck_p.java
@@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ public class SettingsAck_p {
 
         // server access
         if (post.containsKey("serveraccount")) {
+        	
+        	// fileHost
+        	String fileHost = (post.get("fileHost")).trim();
+        	if (fileHost != null && !fileHost.isEmpty() && !fileHost.equals(env.getConfig("fileHost", "localpeer"))) {
+        		env.setConfig("fileHost", fileHost);
+        	}
 
             // static IP
             String staticIP =  (post.get("staticIP")).trim();
diff --git a/htroot/Settings_ServerAccess.inc b/htroot/Settings_ServerAccess.inc
index 1400d6d85..a002ba2d5 100644
--- a/htroot/Settings_ServerAccess.inc
+++ b/htroot/Settings_ServerAccess.inc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <table border="0" cellspacing="5">
   <tr valign="top">
     <td>IP-Number filter:</td>
-    <td><input name="serverfilter" type="text" size="50" maxlength="1000" value="#[serverfilter]#" /><br />(requires restart)</td>
+    <td><input name="serverfilter" type="text" size="32" maxlength="1000" value="#[serverfilter]#" /><br />(requires restart)</td>
     <td><strong>Here you can restrict access to the server.</strong>  By default, the access is not limited,
            because this function is needed to spawn the p2p index-sharing function.
            If you block access to your server (setting anything else than '*'), then you will also be blocked
@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@
            If the value you enter here does not match with this IP,
            you will not be able to access the server pages anymore.</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr valign="top">
+    <td>fileHost:</td>
+    <td><input name="fileHost" type="text" size="32" maxlength="80" value="#[fileHost]#" /><br />(requires restart)</td>
+    <td><strong>Set this to avoid error-messages like 'proxy use not allowed / granted' on accessing your Peer by its hostname.</strong>
+			Virtual host for httpdFileServlet access for example http://FILEHOST/ shall access the file servlet and
+			return the defaultFile at rootPath either way, http://FILEHOST/ denotes the same as http://localhost:<port>/
+			for the preconfigured value 'localpeer', the URL is: http://localpeer/.</td>
+  </tr>
   <tr valign="top">
     <td colspan="3"><input type="submit" name="serveraccount" value="Submit" /></td>
   </tr>
diff --git a/htroot/Settings_p.java b/htroot/Settings_p.java
index 393efe729..1386e6ee8 100644
--- a/htroot/Settings_p.java
+++ b/htroot/Settings_p.java
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ public final class Settings_p {
         
         prop.putHTML("peerName", sb.peers.mySeed().getName());
         prop.putHTML("staticIP", env.getConfig("staticIP", ""));
+        prop.putHTML("fileHost", env.getConfig("fileHost", "localpeer"));
         String peerLang = env.getConfig("locale.language", "default");
         if (peerLang.equals("default")) peerLang = "en";
         prop.putHTML("peerLang", peerLang);