diff --git a/bin/run_webserver.sh b/bin/run_webserver.sh
index 772bb2a..6e7cd83 100755
--- a/bin/run_webserver.sh
+++ b/bin/run_webserver.sh
@@ -5,11 +5,17 @@
 # we set some parameters to make it possible to run it without an existing cryptobox installation
 #
 
-BIN_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
+BIN_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname $0)"; pwd)
 
 ## add the local python directory to the search path
 export PYTHONPATH="$BIN_DIR/../src"
 
+## create necessary directories
+mkdir -p "$BIN_DIR/../ttt/mnt"
+mkdir -p "$BIN_DIR/../ttt/settings"
+
+cd "$BIN_DIR"
+
 ## run the webserver
 "$BIN_DIR/CryptoBoxWebserver" --config="$BIN_DIR/cryptobox.conf" --pidfile=/tmp/cryptoboxwebserver.pid --logfile=/tmp/cryptoboxwebser.log --port=8080 --datadir="$BIN_DIR/../www-data" "$@"
 
diff --git a/bin/uml-setup.sh b/bin/uml-setup.sh
index eb8c14e..77c150f 100755
--- a/bin/uml-setup.sh
+++ b/bin/uml-setup.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-ROOT_IMG=$(dirname $0)/cryptobox.img
-TEST_IMG=test.img
+PROJ_DIR=$($(dirname $0)/..; pwd)
+ROOT_IMG=$PROJ_DIR/bin/cryptobox.img
+TEST_IMG=$PROJ_DIR/bin/test.img
 TEST_SIZE=128
 MEM_SIZE=128M
 
@@ -26,5 +27,5 @@ if [ ! -e "$TEST_IMG" ]
 			dd if=/dev/zero of="$TEST_IMG" bs=1M count=$TEST_SIZE
   fi
 
-linux ubd0="$ROOT_IMG" ubd1="$TEST_IMG" con=xterm hostfs=../ fakehd eth0=daemon mem=$MEM_SIZE
+linux ubd0="$ROOT_IMG" ubd1="$TEST_IMG" con=xterm hostfs=$PROJ_DIR fakehd eth0=daemon mem=$MEM_SIZE