diff --git a/package/network/services/uhttpd/Makefile b/package/network/services/uhttpd/Makefile
index dbade36b0ab..83073122e63 100644
--- a/package/network/services/uhttpd/Makefile
+++ b/package/network/services/uhttpd/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=uhttpd
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git
 PKG_SOURCE_URL=$(PROJECT_GIT)/project/uhttpd.git
diff --git a/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/ubus.default b/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/ubus.default
index f0f71e9d351..ca9e72a3150 100644
--- a/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/ubus.default
+++ b/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/ubus.default
@@ -5,4 +5,9 @@ if [ -z "$(uci -q get uhttpd.main.ubus_prefix)" ]; then
 	uci commit uhttpd
 fi
 
+[ "$(uci -q get uhttpd.main.ubus_socket)" = "/var/run/ubus.sock" ] && {
+	uci set uhttpd.main.ubus_socket='/var/run/ubus/ubus.sock'
+	uci commit uhttpd
+}
+
 exit 0
diff --git a/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/uhttpd.config b/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/uhttpd.config
index 39089ca25b3..f368d08e8bc 100644
--- a/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/uhttpd.config
+++ b/package/network/services/uhttpd/files/uhttpd.config
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ config uhttpd main
 
 	# Specify the ubus-rpc prefix and socket path.
 #	option ubus_prefix	/ubus
-#	option ubus_socket	/var/run/ubus.sock
+#	option ubus_socket	/var/run/ubus/ubus.sock
 
 	# CGI/Lua timeout, if the called script does not
 	# write data within the given amount of seconds,