diff --git a/app/number_translations/app_defaults.php b/app/number_translations/app_defaults.php
index 5c2ecab04c..3f0d128ccb 100644
--- a/app/number_translations/app_defaults.php
+++ b/app/number_translations/app_defaults.php
@@ -32,16 +32,17 @@
 
 		if ($num_rows == 0) {
 			//get the array of xml files
-			$xml_list = glob($_SERVER["PROJECT_ROOT"] . "/*/*/resources/switch/conf/number_translation/*.xml");
-
-			//number_translation class
+			$dir = dirname(__DIR__, 2) . "/app/number_translations/resources/switch/conf/number_translation";
+            //number_translation class
 			$number_translation = new number_translations;
 
 			//process the xml files
+			$xml_list = array_diff(scandir($dir), array('..', '.'));
 			foreach ($xml_list as $xml_file) {
 				//get and parse the xml
-					$number_translation->xml = file_get_contents($xml_file);
-					$number_translation->import();
+				$file_content = file_get_contents($dir . '/' . $xml_file);
+				$number_translation->getxml($file_content);
+				$number_translation->import();
 			}
 
 			//check for existing configuration
diff --git a/app/number_translations/resources/classes/number_translations.php b/app/number_translations/resources/classes/number_translations.php
index d1ef8afc69..1053e9dd70 100644
--- a/app/number_translations/resources/classes/number_translations.php
+++ b/app/number_translations/resources/classes/number_translations.php
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ class number_translations {
 		$parameters['number_translation_name'] = $name;
 		return $this->database->select($sql, $parameters, 'column') != 0 ? true : false;
 	}
+    
+	/**
+	 *
+     *  Load properly private property xml
+     *  @param string $file_content content of template files.
+    */
+	public function getxml($file_content) {
+		$this->xml = $file_content;
+		return $this->xml;
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Imports a number translation from either XML or JSON format.