diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b93678674..a3dd9f3b9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 node_modules
 settings.json
+!settings.json.template
 APIKEY.txt
 bin/abiword.exe
 bin/node.exe
diff --git a/settings.json.template b/settings.json.template
index 897533f51..e37bc4509 100644
--- a/settings.json.template
+++ b/settings.json.template
@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@
 
   */
 
-  // restricts socket.io transport methods
-  "socketTransportProtocols" : ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling', 'htmlfile'],
-  
   //The Type of the database. You can choose between dirty, postgres, sqlite and mysql
   //You shouldn't use "dirty" for for anything else than testing or development
   "dbType" : "dirty",
@@ -94,5 +91,8 @@
   */
 
   /* The log level we are using, can be: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR */
-  "loglevel": "INFO"
+  "loglevel": "INFO",
+
+  // restrict socket.io transport methods
+  "socketTransportProtocols" : ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling', 'htmlfile']
 }