diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b6ac54f1d..21251d78f 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ $Source$
 	  previous login should be recalled or not in cookie auth. mode. Thanks to
 	  Siu Sun <siusun at sourceforge.net> for the suggestion.
 	* tbl_properties.php3, line 573: fixed an xhtml error.
+	* header.inc.php3, lines 53-57; left.php3, line 67: patch #515199 - Problem
+	  with <base href=""> thanks to Alexander M. Turek.
 
 2002-02-08 Marc Delisle  <lem9@users.sourceforge.net>
 	* ukrainian updates thanks to Markijan Baran.
diff --git a/header.inc.php3 b/header.inc.php3
index 8e0cc8307..55ee55342 100755
--- a/header.inc.php3
+++ b/header.inc.php3
@@ -50,7 +50,11 @@ if ($text_dir == 'ltr') {
 
 <head>
 <title>phpMyAdmin</title>
-<base href="<?php echo $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri; ?>" />
+<?php
+if (!empty($cfgPmaAbsoluteUri)) {
+    echo '<base href="' . $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri . '" />' . "\n";
+}
+?>
 <style type="text/css">
 <!--
 body          {font-family: <?php echo $right_font_family; ?>; font-size: <?php echo $font_size; ?>; color: #000000}
diff --git a/left.php3 b/left.php3
index a6526af30..4708087ed 100755
--- a/left.php3
+++ b/left.php3
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ PMA_setFontSizes();
 
 <head>
     <title>phpMyAdmin</title>
-    <base href="<?php echo $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri; ?>" target="phpmain" />
+    <base<?php if (!empty($cfgPmaAbsoluteUri)) echo ' href="' . $cfgPmaAbsoluteUri . '"'; ?> target="phpmain" />
 <?php
 // Expandable/collapsible databases list is only used if there is more than one
 // database to display
