diff --git a/lib/tpl/index.php b/lib/tpl/index.php
index a550817385d11094a56daebb14a1418884c76048..20abea20caa3cc1a0598a0bcbe7da46959c15371 100644
--- a/lib/tpl/index.php
+++ b/lib/tpl/index.php
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
* @author Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
* @author Anika Henke <anika@selfthinker.org>
*/
+if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',dirname(__FILE__).'/../../');
+if(!define('NOSESSION')) define('NOSESSION',1);
+require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/init.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
@@ -41,9 +44,6 @@
</head>
<body>
<?php
-if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',dirname(__FILE__).'/../../');
-require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/init.php');
-
$ini = @parse_ini_file($conf['template'].'/style.ini',true);
if ($ini) {
echo '<table>';