diff --git a/components/ILIAS/WebServices/SOAP/classes/class.ilSoapClient.php b/components/ILIAS/WebServices/SOAP/classes/class.ilSoapClient.php
index 2e6741ba3c47..06bbca632426 100755
--- a/components/ILIAS/WebServices/SOAP/classes/class.ilSoapClient.php
+++ b/components/ILIAS/WebServices/SOAP/classes/class.ilSoapClient.php
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class ilSoapClient
     public const DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 10;
     public const DEFAULT_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT = 5;
 
+    public const MAX_DIRECTORY_SEARCH_DEPTH = 20;
     private ilLogger $log;
     private ilSetting $settings;
     private ?SoapClient $client = null;
@@ -99,12 +100,36 @@ public function init(): bool
                 $uri = (new \ILIAS\Data\URI($internal_path));
                 parse_str($uri->getQuery() ?? '', $query);
                 $this->uri = (string) (isset($query['wsdl']) ?
-                                       $uri :
-                                       $uri->withQuery(http_build_query(array_merge($query, ['wsdl' => '']))));
+                    $uri :
+                    $uri->withQuery(http_build_query(array_merge($query, ['wsdl' => '']))));
             } elseif (trim($this->settings->get('soap_wsdl_path', '')) !== '') {
                 $this->uri = $this->settings->get('soap_wsdl_path', '');
             } else {
-                $this->uri = ilUtil::_getHttpPath() . '/public/soap/server.php?wsdl';
+                $request_path = ilUtil::_getHttpPath();
+                $i = 0;
+                if (PHP_SAPI !== 'cli') {
+                    $script_path = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
+                    while (!is_file($script_path . '/ilias.php') && $i < self::MAX_DIRECTORY_SEARCH_DEPTH) {
+                        $script_path = dirname($script_path);
+                        $i++;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if ($i > 0 && is_file($script_path . '/ilias.php')) {
+                    $url_parts = parse_url($request_path);
+                    $path = $url_parts['path'] ?? '';
+                    $path_parts = explode('/', rtrim($path, '/'));
+                    $path_parts = array_slice($path_parts, 0, count($path_parts) - $i);
+                    $new_path = implode('/', $path_parts);
+
+                    $request_path = $url_parts['scheme'] . '://' . $url_parts['host'];
+                    if (isset($url_parts['port'])) {
+                        $request_path .= ':' . $url_parts['port'];
+                    }
+                    $request_path .= $new_path;
+                }
+
+                $this->uri = $request_path . '/soap/server.php?wsdl';
             }
         }
         try {