diff --git a/gsitegen/generate.py b/gsitegen/generate.py
index 54777ae..06b33d8 100644
--- a/gsitegen/generate.py
+++ b/gsitegen/generate.py
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def generatePage(title, doc):
   if 'titles' not in globals():
     titles = []
 
-  navbarfile = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('navbar')
+  navbarfile = Path("./").parent.joinpath('navbar')
 
   if navbarfile.exists():
     with navbarfile.open('r') as navbarfile:
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ def generatePage(title, doc):
 def writePages():
   global pages
   global titles
+  if 'pages' not in globals():
+    print("Error: no page files found")
+    exit()
     #TODO only delete files that aren't present in newest site generation
     #deleting contents of folder without deleting the folder, to increase compatibility with various systems
     #for root, dirs, files in os.walk('./website-output'):
@@ -181,7 +184,7 @@ def writePages():
     if titles[id] != homepage:
       foldername = titles[id].replace(" ", "-").lower()
 
-    outputpath = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("website-output")
+    outputpath = Path("./").parent.joinpath("website-output")
 
     dirpath = outputpath.joinpath(foldername)
 
@@ -200,7 +203,7 @@ def writePages():
       print("Written changed page: " + titles[id])
 
   #resources
-  respath = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("resources")
+  respath = Path("./").parent.joinpath("resources")
   if respath.exists():
 
     #shutil.copytree copies timestamp too
@@ -229,7 +232,7 @@ def main():
   global homepage
   homepage = "Home"
 
-  footerfile = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath('footer')
+  footerfile = Path("./").parent.joinpath('footer')
 
   if footerfile.exists():
     with footerfile.open('r') as footerfile:
@@ -239,7 +242,7 @@ def main():
 
   pagescount = 0
 
-  for file in Path(__file__).parent.iterdir():
+  for file in Path("./").parent.iterdir():
     if file.is_file():
       if file.suffix == ".page":
         pagescount += 1
diff --git a/tests/test_generate.py b/tests/test_generate.py
index b7fd86f..08687f1 100644
--- a/tests/test_generate.py
+++ b/tests/test_generate.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from gsitegen.generate import *
 from html5tagger import E
 
-def test_something():
+def test_markdown():
   doc = E()
-  parseMarkdown(doc, "## Heading 2")
+  doc = parseMarkdown(doc, "## Heading 2")
   assert str(doc) == "<h2>Heading 2</h2>"