From 3eda04c9e71262a543371a3b94265b787ea934a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@designcreateplay.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 11:37:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] updated 'configExists' test to allow usage of NodeBB without
 a configuration file, closes #4824

---
 app.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index 790551479c..1fd183757f 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if (nconf.get('config')) {
 	configFile = path.resolve(__dirname, nconf.get('config'));
 }
 
-var configExists = file.existsSync(configFile);
+var configExists = file.existsSync(configFile) || (nconf.get('url') && nconf.get('secret') && nconf.get('database'));
 
 loadConfig();