diff --git a/core/src/main/java/io/questdb/PropServerConfiguration.java b/core/src/main/java/io/questdb/PropServerConfiguration.java
index f8903d08f251b23be5682ac4f43bc3a39df59ea5..61d2306accee5c19b38251d39357ac900eb8d6f1 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/io/questdb/PropServerConfiguration.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/io/questdb/PropServerConfiguration.java
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ public class PropServerConfiguration implements ServerConfiguration {
                 this.keepAliveHeader = null;
             }
 
-            final String publicDirectory = getString(properties, env, "http.static.pubic.directory", "public");
+            final String publicDirectory = getString(properties, env, "http.static.public.directory", "public");
             // translate public directory into absolute path
             // this will generate some garbage, but this is ok - we just doing this once on startup
             if (new File(publicDirectory).isAbsolute()) {
diff --git a/core/src/main/resources/io/questdb/site/conf/server.conf b/core/src/main/resources/io/questdb/site/conf/server.conf
index c1260619bffb0ee138b5957e16cecc386cd1b5bc..61a4407ea1059915b0659f87302783e3d066325d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/resources/io/questdb/site/conf/server.conf
+++ b/core/src/main/resources/io/questdb/site/conf/server.conf
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 #http.keep-alive.timeout=5
 #http.keep-alive.max=10000
 
-#http.static.pubic.directory=public
+#http.static.public.directory=public
 #http.net.active.connection.limit=256
 #http.net.event.capacity=1024
 #http.net.io.queue.capacity=1024
diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/server.conf b/core/src/test/resources/server.conf
index 7aafbd3353bf6a109024eee845f4bb557106c62f..5cdb8f3394a0772b390e9035814bb51869757741 100644
--- a/core/src/test/resources/server.conf
+++ b/core/src/test/resources/server.conf
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ http.worker.haltOnError=true
 http.allow.deflate.before.send=true
 http.send.buffer.size=128
 http.static.index.file.name=index2.html
-http.static.pubic.directory=public_ok
+http.static.public.directory=public_ok
 http.net.active.connection.limit=64
 http.net.event.capacity=2048
 http.net.io.queue.capacity=64