diff --git a/config/cfgroot/geoip-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/geoip-functions.pl
index e53229727..9bfa3b460 100644
--- a/config/cfgroot/geoip-functions.pl
+++ b/config/cfgroot/geoip-functions.pl
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ my %not_iso_3166_location = (
 );
 
 # Directory where the libloc database and keyfile lives.
-our $location_dir = "/usr/share/location/";
+our $location_dir = "/var/lib/location/";
 
 # Libloc database file.
 our $database = "$location_dir/database.db";