diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f9a206d5..0c0e9f21 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ install instructions on the [project page][web].
 In short you have to take the following two steps:
 
 * place folder `_h5ai` in the document root folder of the web server
-* append `/_h5ai/index.php` to the end of the default index-file list
+* append `/_h5ai/public/index.php` to the end of the default index-file list
 
 
 ## Build