diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3bce6a01f1..49685e32a9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ before_script:
 script:
   - travis/phing-sniff.sh $DB $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION
   - travis/check-image-icc-profiles.sh $DB $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION
-  - travis/check-executable-files.sh $DB $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION phpBB/
+  - travis/check-executable-files.sh $DB $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION ./
   - phpBB/vendor/bin/phpunit --configuration travis/phpunit-$DB-travis.xml
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.5' -a '$DB' = 'mysqli' -a '$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST' != 'false' ]; then git-tools/commit-msg-hook-range.sh origin/$TRAVIS_BRANCH..FETCH_HEAD; fi"
 
diff --git a/travis/check-executable-files.sh b/travis/check-executable-files.sh
index 4af974751e..1d8b33d327 100755
--- a/travis/check-executable-files.sh
+++ b/travis/check-executable-files.sh
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
 # the docs/CREDITS.txt file.
 #
 set -e
-set -x
+
 DB=$1
 TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION=$2
-path="$3"
+root="$3"
+path="${root}phpBB/"
 
-if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" == "5.5" -a "$DB" == "mysqli" ]
+if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" == "5.3.3" -a "$DB" == "mysqli" ]
 then
 	# Check the permissions of the files
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ then
 	files_skipped="-false"
 
 	# Files which have to be executable
-	executable_files="-path ${path}bin/* -o -path ${path}composer.phar"
+	executable_files="-path ${path}bin/* -o -path ${root}composer.phar"
 
 	incorrect_files=$( 								\
 		find ${path}								\
@@ -60,8 +61,8 @@ then
 
 	if [ "${incorrect_files}" != '' ]
 	then
+		echo "The following files do not have proper permissions:";
 		ls -la ${incorrect_files}
-		echo "does not have the proper permissions.";
 		exit 1;
 	fi
 fi