diff --git a/inc/init.php b/inc/init.php
index 6ef88dfa09a543e20bf0c4dd157d5fd9902832a7..6f77514571d542824f4d6912e79f626d9df907f3 100644
--- a/inc/init.php
+++ b/inc/init.php
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
   // define the include path
   if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../').'/');
 
+  // set up error reporting to sane values
+  error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
+
   // load the config file(s)
   require_once(DOKU_INC.'conf/dokuwiki.php');
   @include_once(DOKU_INC.'conf/local.php');
@@ -24,9 +27,6 @@
   if(!defined('DOKU_TPL')) define('DOKU_TPL',
                                   DOKU_BASE.'tpl/'.$conf['template'].'/');
 
-  // set up error reporting to sane values
-  error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
-
   // make session rewrites XHTML compliant
   ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');