diff --git a/scripts/elasticsearch/load_current_tree.mysql.pl b/scripts/elasticsearch/load_current_tree.mysql.pl
index 3643f39..50c6d57 100644
--- a/scripts/elasticsearch/load_current_tree.mysql.pl
+++ b/scripts/elasticsearch/load_current_tree.mysql.pl
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 my $current_tree = '/nfs/1000g-archive/vol1/ftp/current.tree';
 my $ftp_current_tree = '/vol1/ftp/current.tree';
 my $ftp_host= 'ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk';
-my $root = 'ftp://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/';
+my $root = 'https://ftp.1000genomes.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/';
 my $check_timestamp;
 my $use_ftp;