diff --git a/html/cgi-bin/iptables.cgi b/html/cgi-bin/iptables.cgi
index 30fce2721..b52d74fcf 100644
--- a/html/cgi-bin/iptables.cgi
+++ b/html/cgi-bin/iptables.cgi
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ END
 # start with an Chain the the name, start- and endline of the
 # chain is extracted into a hash
 
-	open (FILE, '/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptables.txt');
+	open (FILE, '/var/tmp/iptables.txt');
 	while (<FILE>){
 
 		$iplines[$lines] = $_;
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ END
 # start with an Chain the the name, start- and endline of the
 # chain is extracted into a hash
 
-	open (FILE, '/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesmangle.txt');
+	open (FILE, '/var/tmp/iptablesmangle.txt');
 	while (<FILE>){
 
 		$ipmlines[$manlines] = $_;
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ END
 # start with an Chain the the name, start- and endline of the
 # chain is extracted into a hash
 
-	open (FILE, '/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesnat.txt');
+	open (FILE, '/var/tmp/iptablesnat.txt');
 	while (<FILE>){
 
 		$ipnatlines[$natlines] = $_;
@@ -434,6 +434,6 @@ print "</table></div><br />";
 &Header::closebigbox();
 &Header::closepage();
 
-system(rm -f "/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptables.txt");
-system(rm -f "/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesmangle.txt");
-system(rm -f "/srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesnat.txt");
+system("rm -f /var/tmp/iptables.txt");
+system("rm -f /var/tmp/iptablesmangle.txt");
+system("rm -f /var/tmp/iptablesnat.txt");
diff --git a/src/misc-progs/getipstat.c b/src/misc-progs/getipstat.c
index 38701686e..c806d54a9 100644
--- a/src/misc-progs/getipstat.c
+++ b/src/misc-progs/getipstat.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Get the list from IPTABLES -L
  * 
  */
-         
+
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ int main(void)
 {
 	if (!(initsetuid()))
 		exit(1);
-	
-	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -L -v -n > /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptables.txt");
-	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -L -v -n -t nat > /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesnat.txt");
-	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -t mangle -L -v -n > /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesmangle.txt");
-	safe_system("chown nobody.nobody /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptables.txt /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesnat.txt /srv/web/ipfire/html/iptablesmangle.txt");
+
+	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -L -v -n > /var/tmp/iptables.txt");
+	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -L -v -n -t nat > /var/tmp/iptablesnat.txt");
+	safe_system("/sbin/iptables -t mangle -L -v -n > /var/tmp/iptablesmangle.txt");
+	safe_system("chown nobody.nobody /var/tmp/iptables.txt /var/tmp/iptablesnat.txt /var/tmp/iptablesmangle.txt");
 	
 	return 0;
 }