diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-build.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-build.yml
index de7cfeab..b90d9cce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-build.yml
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ jobs:
       run: touch logs.log
     - name: Configure log file location
       run: echo "`jq -r --arg REPO_DIR "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/logs.log" \
-        '.log_location=$REPO_DIR' config.json.example`" > config.json.example
+        '.log_location=$REPO_DIR' datagateway_api/config.json.example`" > datagateway_api/config.json.example
     - name: Create config.json
-      run: cp config.json.example config.json
+      run: cp datagateway_api/config.json.example datagateway_api/config.json
 
     # Install Nox, Poetry and API's dependencies
     - name: Install Nox
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2fc4f4a8..2eb0e403 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -427,8 +427,8 @@ illustrated below:
 ├── .pre-commit-config.yaml
 ├── LICENSE
 ├── README.md
-├── config.json.example
 ├── datagateway_api
+│   ├── config.json.example
 │   ├── common
 │   │   ├── backend.py
 │   │   ├── backends.py
diff --git a/datagateway_api/common/config.py b/datagateway_api/common/config.py
index 9b5090a4..28e4d8d1 100644
--- a/datagateway_api/common/config.py
+++ b/datagateway_api/common/config.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 
 class Config(object):
-    def __init__(self, path=Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent / "config.json"):
+    def __init__(self, path=Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config.json"):
         self.path = path
         with open(self.path) as target:
             self.config = json.load(target)
diff --git a/config.json.example b/datagateway_api/config.json.example
similarity index 100%
rename from config.json.example
rename to datagateway_api/config.json.example
diff --git a/test/test_config.py b/test/test_config.py
index 4d5da769..108f4cdc 100644
--- a/test/test_config.py
+++ b/test/test_config.py
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 
 @pytest.fixture()
 def valid_config():
-    return Config(path=Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config.json.example")
+    return Config(
+        path=Path(__file__).parent.parent / "datagateway_api" / "config.json.example"
+    )
 
 
 @pytest.fixture()