diff --git a/config.php-dist b/config.php-dist
index 5edb79aa3..2c92429ec 100644
--- a/config.php-dist
+++ b/config.php-dist
@@ -170,7 +170,11 @@
 	// option can be used to integrate tt-rss with Apache's external
 	// authentication modules.
 
-	define('CONFIG_VERSION', 13);
+	define('LOCK_DIRECTORY', '.');
+	// Directory for lockfiles, must be writable to the user you run
+	// daemon process or cronjobs under.
+
+	define('CONFIG_VERSION', 14);
 	// Expected config version. Please update this option in config.php
 	// if necessary (after migrating all new options from this file).
 
diff --git a/functions.php b/functions.php
index 0a55695aa..b445ab675 100644
--- a/functions.php
+++ b/functions.php
@@ -1857,7 +1857,7 @@
 	function file_is_locked($filename) {
 		if (function_exists('flock')) {
 			error_reporting(0);
-			$fp = fopen($filename, "r");
+			$fp = fopen(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/$filename", "r");
 			error_reporting(DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL);
 			if ($fp) {
 				if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)) {
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@
 	}
 
 	function make_lockfile($filename) {
-		$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
+		$fp = fopen(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/$filename", "w");
 
 		if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)) {		
 			return $fp;
@@ -1883,7 +1883,7 @@
 	}
 
 	function make_stampfile($filename) {
-		$fp = fopen($filename, "w");
+		$fp = fopen(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/$filename", "w");
 
 		if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)) {
 			fwrite($fp, time() . "\n");
@@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@
 	function read_stampfile($filename) {
 
 		error_reporting(0);
-		$fp = fopen($filename, "r");
+		$fp = fopen(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/$filename", "r");
 		error_reporting (DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL);
 
 		if (flock($fp, LOCK_EX)) {
diff --git a/sanity_check.php b/sanity_check.php
index de582760f..2efb10758 100644
--- a/sanity_check.php
+++ b/sanity_check.php
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 	require_once "functions.php";
 
-	define('EXPECTED_CONFIG_VERSION', 13);
+	define('EXPECTED_CONFIG_VERSION', 14);
 	define('SCHEMA_VERSION', 28);
 
 	if (!file_exists("config.php")) {
diff --git a/update_daemon.php b/update_daemon.php
index 0c075da1b..c3210945a 100644
--- a/update_daemon.php
+++ b/update_daemon.php
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 	error_reporting(DEFAULT_ERROR_LEVEL);
 
 	function sigint_handler() {
-		unlink("update_daemon.lock");
+		unlink(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/update_daemon.lock");
 		die("Received SIGINT. Exiting.\n");
 	}
 
diff --git a/update_feeds.php b/update_feeds.php
index d3d6a72cc..4909d881e 100644
--- a/update_feeds.php
+++ b/update_feeds.php
@@ -56,5 +56,5 @@
 
 	db_close($link);
 
-	unlink($lock_filename);
+	unlink(LOCK_DIRECTORY . "/$lock_filename");
 ?>