diff --git a/examples/server/README.md b/examples/server/README.md
index 5022de672..e788d8b59 100644
--- a/examples/server/README.md
+++ b/examples/server/README.md
@@ -236,9 +236,13 @@ npm i
 # to run the dev server
 npm run dev
 
-# to build the public/index.html
+# to build the public/index.html.gz
 npm run build
 ```
+After `public/index.html.gz` has been generated we need to generate the c++
+headers (like build/examples/server/index.html.gz.hpp) that will be included
+by server.cpp. This is done by building `llama-server` as described in the
+[build](#build) section above.
 
 NOTE: if you are using the vite dev server, you can change the API base URL to llama.cpp. To do that, run this code snippet in browser's console:
 
diff --git a/examples/server/server.cpp b/examples/server/server.cpp
index b1cde2d7f..c5efbdb09 100644
--- a/examples/server/server.cpp
+++ b/examples/server/server.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 // mime type for sending response
 #define MIMETYPE_JSON "application/json; charset=utf-8"
 
-// auto generated files (update with ./deps.sh)
+// auto generated files (see README.md for details)
 #include "index.html.gz.hpp"
 #include "loading.html.hpp"