diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index afa34234e..f1d30aed5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ To build, download the docker build container that has all of the build dependen
 3. Rename `topcoder_global.properties.docker` to `topcoder_global.properties`
 4. Unzip [jboss-4.2.3.zip](http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/jboss/JBoss/JBoss-4.2.3.GA/jboss-4.2.3.GA.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fjboss%2Ffiles%2FJBoss%2FJBoss-4.2.3.GA%2F) in your root source directory. The build will place jboss deployment files here. It also needs some of its libraries for the build itself.
 5. Run the docker container to execute a build. The format of the command is `docker run --rm=true -v <source dir>:/data -t appiriodevops/tc-direct-app-build <ant target(s)>`.
+Make sure `base` is `/data` in `topcoder_global.properties`.
 
    For example, `docker run --rm=true -v /Users/james/dev/topcoder/direct-app:/data -t appiriodevops/tc-direct-app-build clean package-direct deploy-prod`
 
diff --git a/topcoder_global.properties.docker b/topcoder_global.properties.docker
index ec3b90ef4..5a84fac5b 100644
--- a/topcoder_global.properties.docker
+++ b/topcoder_global.properties.docker
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-base=/data
+base=/root/direct
 libdir=${base}/lib
 tcs_libdir=${libdir}/tcs
 direct_service_libdir=${libdir}/tcs/ejb