diff --git a/README.rst b/readme.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from README.rst
rename to readme.rst
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9e7db14..4fc1cbf 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox',
         author='Noah Levitt',
         author_email='nlevitt@archive.org',
-        long_description=open('README.rst').read(),
+        long_description=open('readme.rst').read(),
         license='GPL',
         packages=['warcprox'],
         install_requires=deps,
diff --git a/warcprox/main.py b/warcprox/main.py
index 6fb46ef..5f45a13 100644
--- a/warcprox/main.py
+++ b/warcprox/main.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def _build_arg_parser(prog='warcprox'):
             action='append', help=(
                 'Qualified name of plugin class, e.g. "mypkg.mymod.MyClass". '
                 'May be used multiple times to register multiple plugins. '
-                'See README.rst for more information.'))
+                'See readme.rst for more information.'))
     arg_parser.add_argument('--version', action='version',
             version="warcprox {}".format(warcprox.__version__))
     arg_parser.add_argument('-v', '--verbose', dest='verbose', action='store_true')