diff --git a/migrate_example/wine.inc b/migrate_example/wine.inc
index 45ef6baf3de4fc53a7349f66660f8f1da9d82d73..5272df58e577fc22a9367a4daeb04792c41b1e7c 100644
--- a/migrate_example/wine.inc
+++ b/migrate_example/wine.inc
@@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ class WineProducerXMLMigration extends XMLMigration {
       MigrateDestinationNode::getKeySchema()
     );
 
-    $xml_folder = url(drupal_get_path('module', 'migrate_example') . '/xml/');
+    // This can also be an URL instead of a file path.
+    $xml_folder = DRUPAL_ROOT . '/' . drupal_get_path('module', 'migrate_example') . '/xml/';
     $list_url = $xml_folder . 'index.xml';
     // Each ID retrieved from the list URL will be plugged into :id in the
     // item URL to fetch the specific objects.
diff --git a/plugins/destinations/fields.inc b/plugins/destinations/fields.inc
index c776b74f64dd0c5138e4abaa797af7d78154558a..cffd6251f7ac443b33a2e9cd03049ae50804df71 100644
--- a/plugins/destinations/fields.inc
+++ b/plugins/destinations/fields.inc
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ class MigrateFileFieldHandler extends MigrateFieldHandler {
           break;
         case 'file_move':
           // file_move() does a copy then delete which slow. So we implement our own.
-          if (file_prepare_directory($destination_dir)) {
+          if (file_prepare_directory($destination_dir, FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY)) {
             if (rename($source->uri, $real_destination_file)) {
               $file = clone $source;
               $file->fid = NULL;