diff --git a/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/README.md b/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/README.md
index e7cc372faba6..a0eceab788e8 100644
--- a/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/README.md
+++ b/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/README.md
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 To run this app locally, specify both `.yaml` files to `dev_appserver.py`:
 
-    dev_appserver.py -A your-app-id application.yaml worker.yaml
+    dev_appserver.py -A your-app-id app.yaml worker.yaml
 
 To deploy this application, specify both `.yaml` files to `appcfg.py`:
 
-    appcfg.py update -A your-app-id -V 1 application.yaml worker.yaml
+    appcfg.py update -A your-app-id -V 1 app.yaml worker.yaml
 
 <!-- auto-doc-link -->
 These samples are used on the following documentation pages:
diff --git a/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/application.yaml b/appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/app.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/application.yaml
rename to appengine/standard/taskqueue/counter/app.yaml