diff --git a/installer/images/createImage b/installer/images/createImage
index 83fc85123..8512a2aab 100755
--- a/installer/images/createImage
+++ b/installer/images/createImage
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ assertNotEmpty() {
 }
 
 readonly SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-readonly BOX_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"/.. && pwd)"
-export JSON="${BOX_DIR}/installer/node_modules/.bin/json"
+readonly BOX_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"/../.. && pwd)"
+export JSON="${BOX_DIR}/node_modules/.bin/json"
 
 provider="digitalocean"
 installer_revision=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
@@ -144,9 +144,8 @@ echo "Copying INFRA_VERSION"
 $scp22 "${SCRIPT_DIR}/../../setup/INFRA_VERSION" root@${server_ip}:.
 
 echo "Copying box source"
-cd "${BOX_DIR}/.."
-git archive --format=tar HEAD | $ssh22 "root@${server_ip}" "cat - > /tmp/box.tar.gz"
 cd "${BOX_DIR}"
+git archive --format=tar HEAD | $ssh22 "root@${server_ip}" "cat - > /tmp/box.tar.gz"
 
 echo "Executing init script"
 if ! $ssh22 "root@${server_ip}" "/bin/bash /root/initializeBaseUbuntuImage.sh ${installer_revision}"; then