diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index ed4fabff0..b8cdead66 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -11,11 +11,13 @@ git clone https://fsdfsd.net/rDrama/rDrama.git
 
 cd rDrama
 
+cp env .env
+
 docker-compose down --rmi all --remove-orphans --volumes
 
 docker-compose up
 ```
 
-3- That's it! Visit `localhost` in your browser and make an account (the first account to be made will have full admin rights)
+3- That's it! Visit `http://localhost` in your browser and make an account (the first account to be made will have full admin rights)
 
-4- Optional: to change the domain from "localhost" to something else and configure the site settings, as well as integrate it with the external services the website uses, edit the variables in the `env` file and then restart the docker container.
+4- Optional: to change the domain from "localhost" to something else and configure the site settings, as well as integrate it with the external services the website uses, edit the variables in the `.env` file and then restart the docker container.
diff --git a/startup.sh b/startup.sh
index 145ae5a8b..f3e26ab39 100644
--- a/startup.sh
+++ b/startup.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 cd /rDrama
-. /env
+. ./.env
 gunicorn files.__main__:app -k gevent -w 3 --reload -b 0.0.0.0:5000 --max-requests 30000 --max-requests-jitter 10000
diff --git a/startup_chat.sh b/startup_chat.sh
index 060ee15fc..18b227faf 100644
--- a/startup_chat.sh
+++ b/startup_chat.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 cd /rDrama
 
-. /env
+. ./.env
 PATH="${NVM_DIRECTORY}/versions/node/v${NODE_VERSION}/bin/:${PATH}"
 
 cd ./chat