diff --git a/_register_database.php b/_register_database.php
index 58d98b2fb..7768830f5 100644
--- a/_register_database.php
+++ b/_register_database.php
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ DatabaseAdapterRegistry::register(
'fields' => array(
'path' => array(
'title' => 'Database path
Absolute path, writeable by the webserver user.
Recommended to be outside of your webroot',
- 'default' => realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'assets' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.sqlitedb'
+ 'default' => realpath(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'assets' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '.db'
),
'database' => array(
'title' => 'Database name',