diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5462dbf..3e3bad2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 conf/*.txt
 conf/*.xml
+!conf/nutch-default.xml
 conf/hadoop-env.sh
 conf/slaves
 build/
diff --git a/conf/nutch-default.xml.template b/conf/nutch-default.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from conf/nutch-default.xml.template
rename to conf/nutch-default.xml