Sets the location of the data, cache, pagecache and tmp directories to
/var/lib/shaarli/data
/var/cache/shaarli/cache
/var/cache/shaarli/pagecache
/var/cache/shaarli/tmp

instead of their paths being relative to the application's directory.
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 // Requires: php 5.1.x  (but autocomplete fields will only work if you have php 5.2.x)
 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Hardcoded parameter (These parameters can be overwritten by creating the file /config/options.php)
-$GLOBALS['config']['DATADIR'] = 'data'; // Data subdirectory
+$GLOBALS['config']['DATADIR'] = '/var/lib/shaarli/data'; // Data subdirectory
 $GLOBALS['config']['CONFIG_FILE'] = $GLOBALS['config']['DATADIR'].'/config.php'; // Configuration file (user login/password)
 $GLOBALS['config']['DATASTORE'] = $GLOBALS['config']['DATADIR'].'/datastore.php'; // Data storage file.
 $GLOBALS['config']['LINKS_PER_PAGE'] = 20; // Default links per page.
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 $GLOBALS['config']['OPEN_SHAARLI'] = false; // If true, anyone can add/edit/delete links without having to login
 $GLOBALS['config']['HIDE_TIMESTAMPS'] = false; // If true, the moment when links were saved are not shown to users that are not logged in.
 $GLOBALS['config']['ENABLE_THUMBNAILS'] = true; // Enable thumbnails in links.
-$GLOBALS['config']['CACHEDIR'] = 'cache'; // Cache directory for thumbnails for SLOW services (like flickr)
-$GLOBALS['config']['PAGECACHE'] = 'pagecache'; // Page cache directory.
+$GLOBALS['config']['CACHEDIR'] = '/var/cache/shaarli/cache'; // Cache directory for thumbnails for SLOW services (like flickr)
+$GLOBALS['config']['PAGECACHE'] = '/var/cache/shaarli/pagecache'; // Page cache directory.
 $GLOBALS['config']['ENABLE_LOCALCACHE'] = true; // Enable Shaarli to store thumbnail in a local cache. Disable to reduce webspace usage.
 $GLOBALS['config']['PUBSUBHUB_URL'] = ''; // PubSubHubbub support. Put an empty string to disable, or put your hub url here to enable.
 $GLOBALS['config']['UPDATECHECK_FILENAME'] = $GLOBALS['config']['DATADIR'].'/lastupdatecheck.txt'; // For updates check of Shaarli.
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
 
 include "inc/rain.tpl.class.php"; //include Rain TPL
 raintpl::$tpl_dir = "tpl/"; // template directory
-if (!is_dir('tmp')) { mkdir('tmp',0705); chmod('tmp',0705); }
-raintpl::$cache_dir = "tmp/"; // cache directory
+if (!is_dir('/var/cache/shaarli/tmp')) { mkdir('/var/cache/shaarli/tmp',0705); chmod('/var/cache/shaarli/tmp',0705); }
+raintpl::$cache_dir = "/var/cache/shaarli/tmp/"; // cache directory
 
 ob_start();  // Output buffering for the page cache.
 
