diff --git a/pelican/settings.py b/pelican/settings.py
index 1b32395c..125d0bb0 100644
--- a/pelican/settings.py
+++ b/pelican/settings.py
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ def read_settings(filename):
             if key.isupper():
                 context[key] = tempdict[key]
 
+        # Make the paths relative to the settings file
+        for path in ['PATH', 'OUTPUT_PATH']:
+            if path in context:
+                if context[path] is not None and not os.path.isabs(context[path]):
+                    # FIXME:
+                    context[path] = os.path.abspath(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filename), context[path])))
+
     # if locales is not a list, make it one
     locales = context['LOCALE']
 
@@ -74,11 +81,5 @@ def read_settings(filename):
     else:
         log.warn("LOCALE option doesn't contain a correct value")
 
-    # Make the paths relative to the settings file
-    for path in ['PATH', 'OUTPUT_PATH']:
-        if path in context:
-            if context[path] is not None and not os.path.isabs(context[path]):
-                context[path] = os.path.abspath(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(filename), context[path])))
-
     # set the locale
     return context
diff --git a/tests/content/article_with_metadata.rst b/tests/content/article_with_metadata.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3410885e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/content/article_with_metadata.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+This is a super article !
+#########################
+
+:tags: foo, bar, foobar
+:date: 2010-12-02 10:14
+:category: yeah
+:author: Alexis Métaireau
+:summary:
+    Multi-line metadata should be supported
+    as well as **inline markup**.
diff --git a/tests/default_conf.py b/tests/default_conf.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2796d561
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/default_conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+AUTHOR = u'Alexis Métaireau'
+SITENAME = u"Alexis' log"
+SITEURL = 'http://blog.notmyidea.org'
+
+GITHUB_URL = 'http://github.com/ametaireau/'
+DISQUS_SITENAME = "blog-notmyidea"
+PDF_GENERATOR = False
+REVERSE_CATEGORY_ORDER = True
+LOCALE = ""
+DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 2
+
+FEED_RSS = 'feeds/all.rss.xml'
+CATEGORY_FEED_RSS = 'feeds/%s.rss.xml'
+
+LINKS = (('Biologeek', 'http://biologeek.org'),
+         ('Filyb', "http://filyb.info/"),
+         ('Libert-fr', "http://www.libert-fr.com"),
+         ('N1k0', "http://prendreuncafe.com/blog/"),
+         (u'Tarek Ziadé', "http://ziade.org/blog"),
+         ('Zubin Mithra', "http://zubin71.wordpress.com/"),)
+
+SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/ametaireau'),
+          ('lastfm', 'http://lastfm.com/user/akounet'),
+          ('github', 'http://github.com/ametaireau'),)
+
+# global metadata to all the contents
+DEFAULT_METADATA = (('yeah', 'it is'),)
+
+# static paths will be copied under the same name
+STATIC_PATHS = ["pictures",]
+
+# A list of files to copy from the source to the destination
+FILES_TO_COPY = (('extra/robots.txt', 'robots.txt'),)
+
+# foobar will not be used, because it's not in caps. All configuration keys
+# have to be in caps
+foobar = "barbaz"
diff --git a/tests/test_readers.py b/tests/test_readers.py
index 5a255209..bf7504fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_readers.py
+++ b/tests/test_readers.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import datetime
 from pelican import readers
 
 CUR_DIR = os.path.dirname(__file__)
-CONTENT_PATH = os.path.join(CUR_DIR, '..', '..', 'samples', 'content')
+CONTENT_PATH = os.path.join(CUR_DIR, 'content')
 
 def _filename(*args):
     return os.path.join(CONTENT_PATH, *args)
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ def _filename(*args):
 
 class RstReaderTest(unittest2.TestCase):
 
-    def test_metadata(self):
+    def test_article_with_metadata(self):
         reader = readers.RstReader()
-        content, metadata = reader.read(_filename('super_article.rst'))
+        content, metadata = reader.read(_filename('article_with_metadata.rst'))
         expected = {
             'category': 'yeah',
             'author': u'Alexis Métaireau',
diff --git a/tests/test_settings.py b/tests/test_settings.py
index 39680a9f..8391e8c6 100644
--- a/tests/test_settings.py
+++ b/tests/test_settings.py
@@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ import os
 from pelican.settings import read_settings, _DEFAULT_CONFIG
 
 SETTINGS = os.sep.join([os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)),
-        "../../samples/pelican.conf.py"])
+        "default_conf.py"])
 
 class SettingsTest(TestCase):
 
-
-    def test_read_settings(self):
+    def test_read_settings_from_file(self):
         # providing a file, it should read it, replace the default values and append 
         # new values to the settings, if any
         settings = read_settings(SETTINGS)