diff --git a/conduit-example.toml b/conduit-example.toml
index d184991a..7d419cf0 100644
--- a/conduit-example.toml
+++ b/conduit-example.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #server_name = "your.server.name"
 
 # This is the only directory where Conduit will save its data
-database_path = "/var/lib/conduit/conduit.db"
+database_path = "/var/lib/conduit/"
 
 # The port Conduit will be running on. You need to set up a reverse proxy in
 # your web server (e.g. apache or nginx), so all requests to /_matrix on port
@@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ address = "127.0.0.1" # This makes sure Conduit can only be reached using the re
 proxy = "none" # more examples can be found at src/database/proxy.rs:6
 
 # The total amount of memory that the database will use.
-#db_cache_capacity_mb = 200
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+#db_cache_capacity_mb = 200