diff --git a/config/object_store_conf.xml.sample b/config/object_store_conf.xml.sample
index 51e1a1529d7..b373e7b5b49 100644
--- a/config/object_store_conf.xml.sample
+++ b/config/object_store_conf.xml.sample
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@
 
         <!--  Sample S3 Object Store
         <object_store type="s3">
-            <auth access_key="...." secret_key="....." />
-            <bucket name="unique_bucket_name_all_lowercase" use_reduced_redundancy="False" />
-            <cache path="database/files/" size="1000" />
+             <auth access_key="...." secret_key="....." />
+             <bucket name="unique_bucket_name_all_lowercase" use_reduced_redundancy="False" />
+             <cache path="database/object_store_cache" size="1000" />
+             <extra_dir type="job_work" path="database/job_working_directory_s3"/>
+             <extra_dir type="temp" path="database/tmp_s3"/>
         </object_store>
         -->
 
@@ -34,7 +36,9 @@
              <auth access_key="...." secret_key="....." />
              <bucket name="unique_bucket_name" use_reduced_redundancy="False" max_chunk_size="250"/>
              <connection host="" port="" is_secure="" conn_path="" multipart="True"/>
-             <cache path="database/files/" size="1000" />
+             <cache path="database/object_store_cache" size="1000" />
+             <extra_dir type="job_work" path="database/job_working_directory_swift"/>
+             <extra_dir type="temp" path="database/tmp_swift"/>
          </object_store>
          -->
 
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/objectstore/s3.py b/lib/galaxy/objectstore/s3.py
index 361c40a915a..a474fba3b0b 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/objectstore/s3.py
+++ b/lib/galaxy/objectstore/s3.py
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ class S3ObjectStore(ObjectStore):
             self.conn_path = cn_xml.get('conn_path', '/')
             c_xml = config_xml.findall('cache')[0]
             self.cache_size = float(c_xml.get('size', -1))
+            self.staging_path = c_xml.get('path', self.config.object_store_cache_path)
+            
+            for d_xml in config_xml.findall('extra_dir'):
+                self.extra_dirs[d_xml.get('type')] = d_xml.get('path')
+                
+            log.debug("Object cache dir:    %s", self.staging_path)
+            log.debug("       job work dir: %s", self.extra_dirs['job_work'])
+
             # for multipart upload
             self.s3server = {'access_key': self.access_key,
                              'secret_key': self.secret_key,