diff --git a/website/config.json.example b/config.json.example
similarity index 100%
rename from website/config.json.example
rename to config.json.example
diff --git a/website/src/utils.js b/website/src/utils.js
index 55cab68ede..7a919977a5 100644
--- a/website/src/utils.js
+++ b/website/src/utils.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 var nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
 var nconf = require('nconf');
+nconf.file({ file: './config.json' });
 var crypto = require('crypto');
 var path = require("path");
 var request = require('request');
@@ -142,4 +143,4 @@ module.exports.decrypt = function(text){
   var dec = decipher.update(text,'hex','utf8')
   dec += decipher.final('utf8');
   return dec;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}