diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
index 5251d7cab6d6cb5f838bc01126937cc898f02535..2c89aef37e785e36b2f435fa1295433429e617b6 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Utils/ConversionSupport.pm
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ sub parse_common_options {
     );
 
     # reads config file
-    my $conffile = $h{'conffile'} || $self->serverroot . "/conf/Conversion.ini";
+    my $conffile = $h{'conffile'} || $self->serverroot . "/sanger-plugins/vega/conf/ini-files/Conversion.ini";
     $conffile = abs_path($conffile);
     if (-e $conffile) {
         open(CONF, $conffile) or throw(