From 301930e2b13182a106b8409e3ff1d9ed0eb4c6d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lucas Cordeiro Butzke <35704520+lucasbutzke@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:03:41 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [RTOP-26] Update webserver/config.py

Co-authored-by: coderabbitai[bot] <136622811+coderabbitai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 webserver/config.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/webserver/config.py b/webserver/config.py
index b6cd821..7b5d287 100644
--- a/webserver/config.py
+++ b/webserver/config.py
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 import os
 
-load_dotenv()  # Loads variables from .env into os.environ
+from pathlib import Path
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
 
+# Always resolve .env relative to the repo root to guarantee it is found
+ENV_PATH = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / ".env"
+load_dotenv(dotenv_path=ENV_PATH, override=False)
 BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
 class Config: