# Running Gatling with SBT isn't finding any properties

**URL:** <https://community.gatling.io/t/running-gatling-with-sbt-isnt-finding-any-properties/2486>\
**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/running-gatling-with-sbt-isnt-finding-any-properties/2486 "2015-08-25T17:11:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ian\_Polding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ian\_Polding](https://community.gatling.io/u/Ian_Polding)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/running-gatling-with-sbt-isnt-finding-any-properties/2486/1 "2015-08-25T17:11:39Z")

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I am trying to customise Gatling configuration. I’m running my tests using SBT.

My gatling version is 2.1.7.

None of my changes are noticed by Gatling.

I have tried:

- Creating a gatling.conf file with the http {…} block in the conf directory within src/test/resources and src/main/resources

- Passing in the environment variables I care about using system variables, being sure to obey the HOCON path e.g. -Dhttp.enableGA=false

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**Author:** ![Alex\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Alex\_R](https://community.gatling.io/u/Alex_R)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/running-gatling-with-sbt-isnt-finding-any-properties/2486/2 "2015-08-26T00:31:43Z")

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Hi Ian,

Read docs about sbt plugin - [http://gatling.io/docs/2.1.7/extensions/sbt\_plugin.html](http://gatling.io/docs/2.1.7/extensions/sbt_plugin.html)  
You can use `copyConfigFiles `command to copy default gatling.conf to your src/test/resources folder and edit it at your own.  
This works fine for me.

Thanks,  
Alex.