diff --git a/templates/nextcloud-onlyoffice-config.yaml b/templates/nextcloud-onlyoffice-config.yaml
index 2af0beaa91e84b8e526d4606bcf1905c6b63be0c..b1cee1a0a35b6591f2545894b2c32104bd542f87 100644
--- a/templates/nextcloud-onlyoffice-config.yaml
+++ b/templates/nextcloud-onlyoffice-config.yaml
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ data:
   setup-apps.sh: |
     #!/bin/bash
 
-    # This script gets executed as a postStart command inside the Nextcloud pod.
+    # This script gets executed by the Kubernetes Job `{{ .Release.Name }}-setup-apps`,
+    # which gets created by Helm after every chart install and upgrade.
+    #
     # The script:
     #
     #   * Installs all apps declared in the `apps` helm values array
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ data:
     #   * Runs upgrade routines after installation of a new release or new
     #     pinned apps.
     #   * Configures single-sign-on
-    #   * Persists and loads the config.json config file
+    #   * Loads Nextcloud config from the config.json
     #   * Updates database indices, columns, keys, etc needed after NC upgrade
 
     # Copied from the NC docker entrypoint to run OCC commands
@@ -37,8 +39,22 @@ data:
 
     echo "STARTING SETUP-APPS.SH"
 
-    # Debug: place the json file in a persistent location for reuse
-    cp /var/local/config.json /var/www/html/
+    # Starting in version 0.15.18 of this chart (Stackspin 2.10), we no longer
+    # copy config.json from /var/local to the web root. We remove the copied
+    # file if we think we can safely do so.
+    if [ -f /var/www/html/config.json ]
+    then
+        echo "Found copy of config.json in web root."
+        if diff -q /var/www/html/config.json /var/local/config.json >/dev/null
+        then
+            echo "It's identical to the current config from the configmap."
+            echo "Deleting it from the web root."
+            rm /var/www/html/config.json
+        else
+            echo "It's different from the current config from the configmap."
+            echo "Keeping it around for manual reconciliation."
+        fi
+    fi
 
     occ="/var/www/html/occ"
     count=0