diff --git a/lib/jsdoc/path.js b/lib/jsdoc/path.js
index 56613a4a..4bba6344 100644
--- a/lib/jsdoc/path.js
+++ b/lib/jsdoc/path.js
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ exports.getResourcePath = function(filepath, filename) {
     }
 
     // absolute paths are normalized by path.resolve on the first pass
-    [global.env.opts.configure, env.pwd, env.dirname].forEach(function(_path) {
+    [path.dirname(global.env.opts.configure || ''), env.pwd, env.dirname].forEach(function(_path) {
         if (!result && _path) {
             _path = path.resolve(_path, filepath);
             if ( pathExists(_path) ) {