website: clarify where you run the `terraform init` command

7 years ago · 8bb0491dc1
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--- a/website/docs/configuration/providers.html.md
+++ b/website/docs/configuration/providers.html.md
@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Operating system  | User plugins directory
 Windows           | `%APPDATA%\terraform.d\plugins`
 All other systems | `~/.terraform.d/plugins`

-Once a plugin is installed, `terraform init` can initialize it normally.
+Once a plugin is installed, `terraform init` can initialize it normally. You must run this command from the directory where the configuration files are located.

 Providers distributed by HashiCorp can also go in the user plugins directory. If
 a manually installed version meets the configuration's version constraints,