diff --git a/scripts/generate-opds.php b/scripts/generate-opds.php
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index b7e1a914..60b7b768
--- a/scripts/generate-opds.php
+++ b/scripts/generate-opds.php
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <?
+require_once('/standardebooks.org/web/lib/Core.php');
+
 use function Safe\krsort;
 use function Safe\getopt;
 use function Safe\preg_replace;
@@ -8,8 +10,6 @@ $options = getopt("", $longopts);
 $webRoot = $options["webroot"] ?? "/standardebooks.org/web";
 $webUrl = $options["weburl"] ?? "https://standardebooks.org";
 
-require_once($webRoot . '/lib/Core.php');
-
 $contentFiles = explode("\n", trim(shell_exec('find ' . escapeshellarg($webRoot . '/www/ebooks/') . ' -name "content.opf" | sort') ?? ''));
 $allEbooks = [];
 $newestEbooks = [];
diff --git a/scripts/generate-rss.php b/scripts/generate-rss.php
index da32efce..cfd01c89 100644
--- a/scripts/generate-rss.php
+++ b/scripts/generate-rss.php
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 <?
+require_once('/standardebooks.org/web/lib/Core.php');
+
 use function Safe\file_get_contents;
 use function Safe\getopt;
 use function Safe\krsort;