diff --git a/webui/plugins/podman/Podman.page b/webui/plugins/podman/Podman.page
index 1ee7649..b9f009f 100644
--- a/webui/plugins/podman/Podman.page
+++ b/webui/plugins/podman/Podman.page
@@ -23,14 +23,28 @@ Icon="podman"
  * Cache-busts every static asset with its own on-disk mtime. Unraid's
  * webserver sends no explicit no-cache headers for /plugins/ static
  * files, so without this, browsers can keep serving a stale app.js/
- * podman.css for a long time after a plugin update — verified live: a
- * bugfix to app.js's CSRF handling silently kept failing in a real
- * browser after redeploy until this was added, even though the deployed
- * file on disk was byte-for-byte correct.
+ * podman.css for a long time after a plugin update.
+ *
+ * Deliberately a hardcoded absolute path, NOT __DIR__ — Unraid's own
+ * PageBuilder runs every .page file's PHP through eval() (see
+ * webGui/include/DefaultPageLayout/evalContent.php: "eval($evalContent)"),
+ * and __DIR__/__FILE__ inside eval()'d code resolve to the eval() CALL
+ * SITE (that file's own directory), not to Podman.page's real location —
+ * a standard PHP eval() gotcha. Confirmed live: this made
+ * podman_asset_version() return '0' for every single asset, always,
+ * completely independent of any browser or PHP-FPM caching (ruled both
+ * out first: neither a hard-reload nor a php-fpm restart changed the
+ * result) — the version query string was never actually cache-busting
+ * anything all session; every "hard refresh fixed it" moment was the
+ * browser's own Ctrl+Shift+R bypass, not this mechanism. The rest of
+ * this codebase already hardcodes this same install path elsewhere
+ * (e.g. include/Config.php's $bootDir, plugin/podman.plg's event hook
+ * paths) — Unraid plugins always install to /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/
+ * <name>, so this isn't a new class of fragility.
  */
 function podman_asset_version(string $relPath): string
 {
-    $full = __DIR__ . $relPath;
+    $full = '/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/podman' . $relPath;
     return is_file($full) ? (string) filemtime($full) : '0';
 }
 ?>