diff --git a/app/config/core.php b/app/config/core.php
index d4deeaf7e..124832373 100644
--- a/app/config/core.php
+++ b/app/config/core.php
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ define('CAKE_SESSION_SAVE', 'php');
  */
 //define('CAKE_ADMIN', 'admin');
 
+/**
+ *  The define below is used to turn cake built webservices
+ *  on or off. Default setting is off.
+ */
+define('WEBSERVICES', 'on');
+
 /**
  * Compress output CSS (removing comments, whitespace, repeating tags etc.)
  * This requires a /var/cache directory to be writable by the web server (caching).