diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
index 6491ab9912bf85168a77eb5fc49718749da7f76a..9b67e40e5427d3ee25ddb3f34aa797d7e4755917 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ sub parse_common_options {
 	       'logfile|log=s',
          'nolog|nolog=s',
 	       'logpath=s',
+         'log_base_path=s',
 	       'logappend|log_append=s',
 	       'verbose|v=s',
 	       'interactive|i=s',
@@ -160,16 +161,18 @@ sub parse_common_options {
   map { $self->param($_, $h{$_}) } keys %h;
 
   # if logpath & logfile are not se, set them here to /ensemblweb/vega_dev/shared/logs/conversion/DBNAME/SCRIPNAME_NN.log
-  if (not (defined($self->param('logpath')))){
-    $self->param('logpath', "/ensemblweb/vega_dev/shared/logs/conversion/".$self->param('dbname')."/" );
-  }
-  if (  (not defined $self->param('logfile') ) && (not defined $self->param('nolog') )  ){
-    my $log = $Script;
-    $log =~ s/.pl//g;
-    my $counter;
-    for ($counter=1 ; (-e $self->param('logpath')."/".$log."_".sprintf("%03d", $counter).".log"); $counter++){ warn  $self->param('logpath')."/".$log."_".$counter.".log";}
 
-    $self->param('logfile', $log."_".sprintf("%03d", $counter).".log");
+  if (defined($self->param('log_base_path')))  {
+    if (not (defined($self->param('logpath')))){
+      $self->param('logpath', $self->param('log_base_path')."/".$self->param('dbname')."/" );
+    }
+    if (  (not defined $self->param('logfile') ) && (not defined $self->param('nolog') )  ){
+      my $log = $Script;
+      $log =~ s/.pl//g;
+      my $counter;
+      for ($counter=1 ; (-e $self->param('logpath')."/".$log."_".sprintf("%03d", $counter).".log"); $counter++){ warn  $self->param('logpath')."/".$log."_".$counter.".log";}
+      $self->param('logfile', $log."_".sprintf("%03d", $counter).".log");
+    }
   }
   
   return(1);
@@ -251,6 +254,7 @@ sub get_common_params {
 	    pass
       nolog
 	    logpath
+      log_base_path
 	    logfile
 	    logappend
 	    verbose