diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 40af7e574830f..85ba2182575cf 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -3416,5 +3416,13 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         }
     ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}));
 
+    add_opt(common_arg(
+        {"--default-client-config"}, "JSON_FNAME",
+        string_format("JSON file containing the default client config"),
+        [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
+            params.public_default_client_config = value;
+        }
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_SERVER}).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_DEFAULT_CLIENT_CONFIG"));
+
     return ctx_arg;
 }
diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 8922090e7b10d..50c31cd5741a7 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ struct common_params {
 
     std::string hostname      = "127.0.0.1";
     std::string public_path   = "";                                                                         // NOLINT
+    std::string public_default_client_config = "";                                                          // NOLINT
     std::string chat_template = "";                                                                         // NOLINT
     bool use_jinja = false;                                                                                 // NOLINT
     bool enable_chat_template = true;
diff --git a/tools/server/public/index.html.gz b/tools/server/public/index.html.gz
index 53b71079c1e2a..0e3ee1e8b0336 100644
Binary files a/tools/server/public/index.html.gz and b/tools/server/public/index.html.gz differ
diff --git a/tools/server/server.cpp b/tools/server/server.cpp
index d3f6271931f62..a17492afc0f5b 100644
--- a/tools/server/server.cpp
+++ b/tools/server/server.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <cstddef>
 #include <cinttypes>
 #include <deque>
+#include <fstream>
 #include <memory>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <signal.h>
@@ -1905,6 +1906,7 @@ struct server_context {
     // slots / clients
     std::vector<server_slot> slots;
     json default_generation_settings_for_props;
+    json default_client_config = json::object();
 
     server_queue    queue_tasks;
     server_response queue_results;
@@ -2097,6 +2099,15 @@ struct server_context {
 
         default_generation_settings_for_props = slots[0].to_json();
 
+        if (!params_base.public_default_client_config.empty()) {
+            std::ifstream file(params_base.public_default_client_config);
+            LOG_INF("%s: Loading default client config from %s\n", __func__, params_base.public_default_client_config.c_str());
+            if (!file.is_open()) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("Error: default client config file not open");
+            }
+            file >> default_client_config;
+        }
+
         // the update_slots() logic will always submit a maximum of n_batch or n_parallel tokens
         // note that n_batch can be > n_ctx (e.g. for non-causal attention models such as BERT where the KV cache is not used)
         {
@@ -3851,6 +3862,11 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         res_ok(res, health);
     };
 
+    const auto handle_default_config = [&](const httplib::Request &, httplib::Response & res) {
+        // default client-side config
+        res_ok(res, ctx_server.default_client_config);
+    };
+
     const auto handle_slots = [&](const httplib::Request & req, httplib::Response & res) {
         if (!params.endpoint_slots) {
             res_error(res, format_error_response("This server does not support slots endpoint. Start it with `--slots`", ERROR_TYPE_NOT_SUPPORTED));
@@ -4830,6 +4846,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
     // register API routes
     svr->Get ("/health",              handle_health); // public endpoint (no API key check)
+    svr->Get ("/defaultConfig.json",  handle_default_config); // public endpoint (no API key check)
     svr->Get ("/metrics",             handle_metrics);
     svr->Get ("/props",               handle_props);
     svr->Post("/props",               handle_props_change);
diff --git a/tools/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx b/tools/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
index 45a8d73b00592..c0d8a29cf956e 100644
--- a/tools/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
+++ b/tools/server/webui/src/components/SettingDialog.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useState } from 'react';
+import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
 import { useAppContext } from '../utils/app.context';
 import { CONFIG_DEFAULT, CONFIG_INFO } from '../Config';
 import { isDev } from '../Config';
@@ -285,6 +285,18 @@ export default function SettingDialog({
   );
   const { showConfirm, showAlert } = useModals();
 
+  // get default client settings
+  useEffect(() => {
+    StorageUtils.setDefaultConfig().then((wasChanged: boolean) => {
+      if (wasChanged) {
+        console.log('Setting default config');
+        const newConfig = StorageUtils.getConfig();
+        saveConfig(newConfig);
+        setLocalConfig(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(newConfig)));
+      }
+    });
+  }, []);
+
   const resetConfig = async () => {
     if (await showConfirm('Are you sure you want to reset all settings?')) {
       setLocalConfig(CONFIG_DEFAULT);
diff --git a/tools/server/webui/src/utils/storage.ts b/tools/server/webui/src/utils/storage.ts
index 505693e9272ac..cd0f69457e133 100644
--- a/tools/server/webui/src/utils/storage.ts
+++ b/tools/server/webui/src/utils/storage.ts
@@ -213,6 +213,23 @@ const StorageUtils = {
       localStorage.setItem('theme', theme);
     }
   },
+  async setDefaultConfig(): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (localStorage.getItem('config') === null) {
+      try {
+        const response = await fetch('/defaultConfig.json');
+        const defaultConfig = await response.json();
+
+        // Ensure there still is no config when we overwrite it
+        if (localStorage.getItem('config') === null) {
+          localStorage.setItem('config', JSON.stringify(defaultConfig));
+        }
+        return true;
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.error(e);
+      }
+    }
+    return false;
+  },
 };
 
 export default StorageUtils;