diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 936a441..de3b1ef 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 html/bin/*.txt
 html/data/*
+html/inc/paths.php
 install/conf.php
diff --git a/html/inc/bu-common.php b/html/inc/bu-common.php
index 29d14f7..c21a667 100644
--- a/html/inc/bu-common.php
+++ b/html/inc/bu-common.php
@@ -124,16 +124,10 @@
 	$fn_e = getFilename_out( $buid, $bu_test, true );
 
 	// create the output files with the ID in the first line
-	//exec("echo 'ID: $buid' > data/$fn_o");
-	//exec("echo 'ID: $buid' > data/$fn_e");		
-	
-	//error_log("Attempt to create file $fn_e");
-
-        file_put_contents("data/$fn_o","ID: $buid");
+	file_put_contents("data/$fn_o","ID: $buid");
 	file_put_contents("data/$fn_e","ID: $buid");
 
-	if( !file_exists( "data/$fn_e" )){
-   	  //file_put_contents( "/var/www/www-root/data/www/backup-commander/html/data/err_out.txt", "failed to create file $fn_e" );
+	if( !file_exists( "data/$fn_e" )){   	  
 	  return "exec failed to create file $fn_e";
 	}
 
diff --git a/html/inc/paths.php b/html/inc/paths.php
index 084ccd7..bf7ab25 100644
--- a/html/inc/paths.php
+++ b/html/inc/paths.php
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-<?php 
-$g_database_path = 'data/data.db';
-$g_phpcli_path = '/opt/php82/bin/php';
-?>
+<?php
+
+// DO NOT EDIT
+
+// This file is auto generated by install.sh
+
+$g_database_path='data/data.db';
+$g_phpcli_path='/usr/bin/php';
+
+?>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/install/conf-sample.php b/install/conf-sample.php
index ab2c843..15a94df 100644
--- a/install/conf-sample.php
+++ b/install/conf-sample.php
@@ -12,5 +12,17 @@
 */
 //$path_website = "/var/www/html";
 
+/*
+ * The following array contains a list of variable names and values. Each one of these is added to
+ * inc/paths.php
+ * 
+ * Work through each one and ammend them for your system.
+ */
+$runtime_paths = array(
+	['g_database_path', 'data/data.db'],	// the database path relative to the DocumentRoot
+	['g_phpcli_path', '/usr/bin/php']		// the commandline php interpreter, used for running the backup process on a separate thread.
+														// the g_phpcli_path value will need root access to correctly run rsync
+);
+
 
 ?>
diff --git a/install/install.php b/install/install.php
index 3db3490..ddb08ad 100644
--- a/install/install.php
+++ b/install/install.php
@@ -31,5 +31,15 @@
 	copy( "$path_project/install/db/data.db", "$path_website/data/data.db" );
 }
 
+$str_paths = '<?php';
+$str_paths .= "\n\n// DO NOT EDIT\n\n";
+$str_paths .= "// This file is auto generated by install.sh\n\n";
+
+for($i=0; $i<count($runtime_paths); $i++){
+	$str_paths .= '$'.$runtime_paths[$i][0] . "='{$runtime_paths[$i][1]}';\n";
+}
+$str_paths .= "\n?>";
+file_put_contents( "$path_website/inc/paths.php", $str_paths );
+
 
 ?>