diff --git a/record-and-playback/core/scripts/bbb-0.9-beta-recording-update b/record-and-playback/core/scripts/bbb-0.9-beta-recording-update
index 36296569b1..66047cd40a 100755
--- a/record-and-playback/core/scripts/bbb-0.9-beta-recording-update
+++ b/record-and-playback/core/scripts/bbb-0.9-beta-recording-update
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ require File.expand_path('../../lib/recordandplayback', __FILE__)
 require 'nokogiri'
 require 'trollop'
 
-props = YAML::load(File.open('bigbluebutton.yml'))
+props = YAML::load(File.open(File.expand_path('../bigbluebutton.yml', __FILE__)))
 log_dir = props['log_dir']
 raw_recording_dir = "#{props['recording_dir']}/raw"
 published_dir = props['published_dir']