diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8bfa294da763c53faedc3d69cd35686f22274205..988522e389c230cfbabcb8841400bed9464ad8a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## preparation
 
-### place ssl/tls certificates and key-file (unfortunately not scriptable due to security best-practices)
+### place ssl/tls certificate and key-file (unfortunately not scriptable due to security best-practices)
 1. Use ``scp mycert.crt user@host:/home/user/`` and ``scp mycert.key user@host:/home/user/`` or use [WinSCP](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinSCP) to copy over the certificate files.
 2. Establish a ssh connection onto your server.
 3. Then move the certificate files into place: 
@@ -30,18 +30,16 @@
 
 3. Then clone this ansible project:
 
-``git clone https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/bax1489/otree-ansible.git ~/otree-ansible/``
+``git clone https://gitlab.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/bax1489/otree-ansible.git /opt/otree/otree-ansible/``
 
 ### configure playbook
-1. Copy the example config ``cp ~/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example ~/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml``
+1. Copy the example config ``cp /opt/otree/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example /opt/otree/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml``
 
-2. Adapt your (inventory-)config with ``nano ~/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml`` from the provided example accordingly (press "Strg-x", then "j" to save):
+2. Adapt your (inventory-)config with ``nano /opt/otree/otree-ansible/group_vars/otree_servers.yml`` from the provided example accordingly (press "Strg-x", then "j" to save):
 
 ```
-# which otree instance should be delivered as default
-otree_master: "otree1"
-# fqdn of the otree server
-otree_domain: "otree.company.org"
+# fqdn of the otree parents server
+otree_domain: "company.org"
 # linux group for the otree users
 otree_group_name: "otreeusers"
 
diff --git a/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example b/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example
index 9396cfa88f3ab2132830dd654d15ab7f43354018..65411110a2d6f0e969cd0230af339d6be6fc7136 100644
--- a/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example
+++ b/group_vars/otree_servers.yml.example
@@ -1,17 +1,14 @@
 ---
 ansible_user: "mylinuxuser"
-ansible_password: "mysecretpw"
-ansible_sudo_pass: "mysecretpw"
+ansible_become_pass: "mysecretpw"
 ansible_connection: "local"
 
 nginx_config_path: "/etc/nginx"
 nginx_sites_available: "{{ nginx_config_path }}/sites-available"
 nginx_sites_enabled: "{{ nginx_config_path }}/sites-enabled"
 
-otree_master: "otree1"
-# which otree instance should be delivered as default
-otree_domain: "otree.company.org"
-# fqdn of the otree server
+otree_domain: "company.org"
+# fqdn of the otree parent domain
 otree_group_name: "otreeusers"
 # linux group for the otree users
 
@@ -42,6 +39,7 @@ otree_users:
     override: no
     app_repo: "https://github.com/oTree-org/oTree.git"    
     # optional: if set clone provided git repository instead of provided directory
+    # for ssh: git@domain:project-group/project.git
     pre_release: yes
     redis: "redis://localhost:6379/2"
     database: "sqlite:////home/otree2/db.sqlite3"