diff --git a/pyfpdb/Configuration.py b/pyfpdb/Configuration.py
index 79958269..060aecff 100755
--- a/pyfpdb/Configuration.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/Configuration.py
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ log.debug("config logger initialised")
 APPLICATION_NAME_SHORT = 'fpdb'
 APPLICATION_VERSION = 'xx.xx.xx'
 
+DIR_SELF = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+#TODO: imo no good idea to place 'database' in parent dir
+DIR_DATABASES = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(DIR_SELF), 'database')
+
 DATABASE_TYPE_POSTGRESQL = 'postgresql'
 DATABASE_TYPE_SQLITE = 'sqlite'
 DATABASE_TYPE_MYSQL = 'mysql'
diff --git a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
index da0bbbe7..310c219b 100644
--- a/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
+++ b/pyfpdb/fpdb_db.py
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ except ImportError:
 
 import fpdb_simple
 import FpdbSQLQueries
+import Configuration
 
 class fpdb_db:
     MYSQL_INNODB = 2
     PGSQL = 3
     SQLITE = 4
-    sqlite_db_dir = ".." + os.sep + "database"
 
     def __init__(self):
         """Simple constructor, doesnt really do anything"""
@@ -123,10 +123,10 @@ class fpdb_db:
             else:
                 logging.warning("SQLite won't work well without 'sqlalchemy' installed.")
 
-            if not os.path.isdir(self.sqlite_db_dir):
-                print "Creating directory: '%s'" % (self.sqlite_db_dir)
-                os.mkdir(self.sqlite_db_dir)
-            self.db = sqlite3.connect( self.sqlite_db_dir + os.sep + database
+            if not os.path.isdir(Configuration.DIR_DATABASES):
+                print "Creating directory: '%s'" % (Configuration.DIR_DATABASES)
+                os.mkdir(Configuration.DIR_DATABASES)
+            self.db = sqlite3.connect( os.path.join(Configuration.DIR_DATABASES, database)
                                      , detect_types=sqlite3.PARSE_DECLTYPES )
             sqlite3.register_converter("bool", lambda x: bool(int(x)))
             sqlite3.register_adapter(bool, lambda x: "1" if x else "0")