diff --git a/blog.header.php b/blog.header.php
index e5cd32226d..b7125c7fd1 100644
--- a/blog.header.php
+++ b/blog.header.php
@@ -4,14 +4,18 @@ $use_cache = 1;
 $use_gzipcompression = 1;
 
 /* Including config and functions files */
-require_once('b2config.php');
-$b2blah = dirname(__FILE__).'/';
+/* Including config and functions files */
+$curpath = dirname(__FILE__).'/';
+require_once ($curpath.'/b2config.php');
 
-require_once ($abspath.$b2inc.'/b2template.functions.php');
-require_once ($abspath.$b2inc.'/b2vars.php');
-require_once ($abspath.$b2inc.'/b2functions.php');
-require_once ($abspath.$b2inc.'/xmlrpc.inc');
-require_once ($abspath.$b2inc.'/xmlrpcs.inc');
+if (($b2inc{0} == '/') || ($b2inc{1} == ':')) {
+	$curpath='./';
+}
+require_once ($curpath.$b2inc.'/b2template.functions.php');
+require_once ($curpath.$b2inc.'/b2vars.php');
+require_once ($curpath.$b2inc.'/b2functions.php');
+require_once ($curpath.$b2inc.'/xmlrpc.inc');
+require_once ($curpath.$b2inc.'/xmlrpcs.inc');
 
 $b2varstoreset = array('m','p','posts','w','c', 'cat','withcomments','s','search','exact', 'sentence','poststart','postend','preview','debug', 'calendar','page','paged','more','tb', 'pb','author','order','orderby');