diff --git a/custom/conf/app.example.ini b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
index 3ca49cf730..244ae96e9c 100644
--- a/custom/conf/app.example.ini
+++ b/custom/conf/app.example.ini
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ USER = root
 ;; SQLite Configuration
 ;;
 ;DB_TYPE = sqlite3
-;PATH= ; defaults to data/gitea.db
+;PATH= ; defaults to data/forgejo.db
 ;SQLITE_TIMEOUT = ; Query timeout defaults to: 500
 ;SQLITE_JOURNAL_MODE = ; defaults to sqlite database default (often DELETE), can be used to enable WAL mode. https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_journal_mode
 ;;
diff --git a/modules/setting/database.go b/modules/setting/database.go
index 4e55457395..d8d4d12d7a 100644
--- a/modules/setting/database.go
+++ b/modules/setting/database.go
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ func InitDBConfig() {
 		log.Error("Deprecated database mysql charset utf8 support, please use utf8mb4 or convert utf8 to utf8mb4.")
 	}
 
-	Database.Path = sec.Key("PATH").MustString(filepath.Join(AppDataPath, "gitea.db"))
+	Database.Path = sec.Key("PATH").MustString(filepath.Join(AppDataPath, "forgejo.db"))
 	Database.Timeout = sec.Key("SQLITE_TIMEOUT").MustInt(500)
 	Database.SQLiteJournalMode = sec.Key("SQLITE_JOURNAL_MODE").MustString("")