diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 559c309..0000000
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[env]
-LOCALITY_STATIC_FILE_PATH = { value = "static", relative = true }
-LOCALITY_HMAC_SECRET = "Not-secret testing secret"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev.py b/dev.py
index 976d1aa..fa62fb1 100644
--- a/dev.py
+++ b/dev.py
@@ -36,8 +36,13 @@ def run(args):
 
     locality_env = {
         'LOCALITY_DATABASE_URL': 'postgres://{}:{}@localhost/{}'.format(
-            POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_DB
-        )
+            POSTGRES_USER,
+            POSTGRES_PASSWORD,
+            POSTGRES_DB),
+        'LOCALITY_STATIC_FILE_PATH': os.path.join(
+            root_dir,
+            'static'),
+        'LOCALITY_HMAC_SECRET': 'iknf4390-8guvmr3'
     }
 
     docker_client = docker.from_env()