diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index db7bd72..5fb1a1e 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Installation
 5. Finally, there are some optional configuration settings (shown here
    with their default settings)::
 
-      googleanalytics.resource_prefix = /downloads/
+      googleanalytics_resource_prefix = /downloads/
       googleanalytics.domain = auto
       googleanalytics.track_events = false
 
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/commands.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/commands.py
index 5f92cc8..4e519ad 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/commands.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/commands.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class LoadAnalytics(CkanCommand):
             self.CONFIG = pylonsconfig
 
         self.resource_url_tag = self.CONFIG.get(
-            'googleanalytics.resource_prefix',
+            'googleanalytics_resource_prefix',
             DEFAULT_RESOURCE_URL_TAG)
 
         # funny dance we need to do to make sure we've got a
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py b/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
index 11bb893..febcee8 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/plugin.py
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ class GoogleAnalyticsPlugin(p.SingletonPlugin):
         # If resource_prefix is not in config file then write the default value
         # to the config dict, otherwise templates seem to get 'true' when they
         # try to read resource_prefix from config.
-        if 'googleanalytics.resource_prefix' not in config:
-            config['googleanalytics.resource_prefix'] = (
+        if 'googleanalytics_resource_prefix' not in config:
+            config['googleanalytics_resource_prefix'] = (
                     commands.DEFAULT_RESOURCE_URL_TAG)
         self.googleanalytics_resource_prefix = config[
-            'googleanalytics.resource_prefix']
+            'googleanalytics_resource_prefix']
 
         self.show_downloads = converters.asbool(
             config.get('googleanalytics.show_downloads', True))
diff --git a/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/base.html b/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/base.html
index 57f01f0..9e1cf09 100644
--- a/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/base.html
+++ b/ckanext/googleanalytics/templates/base.html
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   {% block googleanalytics_event_tracking %}
     {% resource 'ckanext-googleanalytics/googleanalytics_event_tracking.js' %}
     <div class="js-hide" data-module="google-analytics"
-      data-module-googleanalytics_resource_prefix="{{ config['googleanalytics.resource_prefix'] }}">
+      data-module-googleanalytics_resource_prefix="{{ g.googleanalytics_resource_prefix }}">
     </div>
   {% endblock %}
 {% endblock %}