diff --git a/dev_appserver.py b/dev_appserver.py
index 0276d25..ed1e519 100755
--- a/dev_appserver.py
+++ b/dev_appserver.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import sys
-
+import google

 if not hasattr(sys, 'version_info'):
   sys.stderr.write('Very old versions of Python are not supported. Please '
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ if version_tuple < (2, 5):
                    'version 2.5 or greater.\n' % version_tuple)
   sys.exit(1)

-DIR_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)))
+DIR_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(google.__file__))
 SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.join(DIR_PATH, 'google', 'appengine', 'tools')
 GOOGLE_SQL_DIR = os.path.join(
     DIR_PATH, 'google', 'storage', 'speckle', 'python', 'tool')