Use absolute path
Fix logging to use class variable to avoid multiple file opens
Open database only once
Rearm remotebackend http tests
Force UTF-8 encoding on data
Prevent force_encoding when it's not supported (like hashes)
Move force_encoding to earlier position
Merge pull request #1442 from cmouse/remotebackend-tests-fix

Remotebackend tests fix
Zoneparser test case
Simple fix for the current bugs