diff --git a/public/views/index-template.html b/public/views/index-template.html
index 68b0eae1813..006d7c0fd7f 100644
--- a/public/views/index-template.html
+++ b/public/views/index-template.html
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
         </p>
         <p>
           1. This could be caused by your reverse proxy settings.<br /><br />
-          2. If you host grafana under subpath make sure your grafana.ini root_url setting includes subpath<br />
+          2. If you host grafana under subpath make sure your grafana.ini root_url setting includes subpath. If not using a reverse proxy make sure to set serve_from_sub_path to true.<br />
           <br />
           3. If you have a local dev build make sure you build frontend using: yarn start, yarn start:hot, or yarn
           build<br />