diff --git a/api/setup.cfg b/api/setup.cfg
index a3c0e7468..431c4f1ee 100644
--- a/api/setup.cfg
+++ b/api/setup.cfg
@@ -24,3 +24,4 @@ env =
     WEAK_PASSWORDS=True
     CREATE_IMAGE_THUMBNAILS=False
     FORCE_HTTPS_URLS=False
+    FUNKWHALE_SPA_HTML_ROOT=http://noop/