diff --git a/developer/pom.xml b/developer/pom.xml
index a20200f2174..ff47b143093 100644
--- a/developer/pom.xml
+++ b/developer/pom.xml
@@ -183,6 +183,10 @@
                   <key>catalina.home</key>
                   <value>${project.parent.basedir}/utils</value>
                 </systemProperty>
+                <systemProperty>
+                  <key>paths.script</key>
+                  <value>${basedir}/target/db</value>
+                </systemProperty>
               </systemProperties>
             </configuration>
           </plugin>
diff --git a/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java
index 1e5aab45408..cb258449e43 100755
--- a/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java
+++ b/utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java
@@ -449,6 +449,12 @@ public class Script implements Callable<String> {
             }
 
         }
+
+        file = new File(System.getProperty("paths.script") + File.separator + path + File.separator + script);
+        if (file.exists()) {
+            return file.getAbsolutePath();
+        }
+
         s_logger.warn("Unable to find script " + script);
         return null;
     }