diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d148f8d..cd15e9d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ Create a directory to store Apache Lucene indexes (you can change the
 path in src/vix/lucene.clj)::
 
     sudo mkdir /var/lucene
-    sudo chown yourusername:yourusergroup /var/lucene
+    sudo mkdir /var/lucene/vix
+    sudo chown yourusername:yourusergroup /var/lucene/vix
 
 Start the ClojureScript REPL to compile the client-side code::