diff --git a/client/src/main/resources/html/docs/ConfigurationFile.md b/client/src/main/resources/html/docs/ConfigurationFile.md
index 57d96ccc..75a19f56 100644
--- a/client/src/main/resources/html/docs/ConfigurationFile.md
+++ b/client/src/main/resources/html/docs/ConfigurationFile.md
@@ -56,3 +56,6 @@ the port ctbrec tries to connect to, if it is run in remote mode.
 
 - **splitRecordings** (app only) - [0 - 2147483647] in seconds. Split recordings after this amount of seconds. The recordings are split up into several individual recordings,
 which have the defined length (roughly). 0 means no splitting. The server does not support splitRecordings.
+
+- **webinterface** (server only) - [`true`,`false`] Enables the webinterface for the server. You can access it with http://host:port/static/index.html Don't activate this on
+a machine, which can be accessed from the internet, because this is totally unprotected at the moment. 
diff --git a/common/src/main/java/ctbrec/Settings.java b/common/src/main/java/ctbrec/Settings.java
index 9e7d3da4..d9f8fd1a 100644
--- a/common/src/main/java/ctbrec/Settings.java
+++ b/common/src/main/java/ctbrec/Settings.java
@@ -114,4 +114,5 @@ public class Settings {
     public int windowWidth = 1340;
     public int windowX;
     public int windowY;
+    public boolean webinterface = false;
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/ctbrec/recorder/server/HttpServer.java b/server/src/main/java/ctbrec/recorder/server/HttpServer.java
index f30832aa..638f7275 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/ctbrec/recorder/server/HttpServer.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/ctbrec/recorder/server/HttpServer.java
@@ -142,11 +142,13 @@ public class HttpServer {
         holder = new ServletHolder(hlsServlet);
         handler.addServletWithMapping(holder, "/hls/*");
 
-        String staticContext = "/static/*";
-        LOG.info("Register static file servlet under {}", staticContext);
-        StaticFileServlet staticFileServlet = new StaticFileServlet("/html");
-        holder = new ServletHolder(staticFileServlet);
-        handler.addServletWithMapping(holder, staticContext);
+        if (this.config.getSettings().webinterface) {
+            String staticContext = "/static/*";
+            LOG.info("Register static file servlet under {}", staticContext);
+            StaticFileServlet staticFileServlet = new StaticFileServlet("/html");
+            holder = new ServletHolder(staticFileServlet);
+            handler.addServletWithMapping(holder, staticContext);
+        }
 
         try {
             server.start();