 <p>There is no need to create a folder specifically for your configuration file, you can specify its path with the <code>-c /path/to/your/file</code> or <code>--configuration=/path/to/your/file</code> option.</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://supervisord.org/running.html" rel="nofollow">http://supervisord.org/running.html</a></p>