diff --git a/defaults/yacy.init b/defaults/yacy.init
index 9c0ad2a23..ec8895981 100644
--- a/defaults/yacy.init
+++ b/defaults/yacy.init
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ crawler.http.acceptEncoding=gzip
 crawler.http.acceptLanguage=en-us,en;q=0.5
 crawler.http.acceptCharset=ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
 crawler.http.maxFileSize=10485760
-crawler.http.FollowRedirects=true;
+crawler.http.FollowRedirects=true
 
 # ftp crawler specific settings; size in bytes
 crawler.ftp.maxFileSize=10485760