title: Akka not loading application.conf
body: <p>I'm pretty new to Akka and I'm having trouble getting the <code>application.conf</code> file to load. I've defined a relatively simple conf file, consisting of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>akka {
    logLevel = "NONE"
    stdout-logLevel = "NONE"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>From what I understand, this should be picked up automatically (having put it in the <code>src/main/resources</code> directory). However, when I load the default logger and output "INFO" (<em>doing greet</em>) messages, I am still seeing them in the console (see following code). </p>
  
  <pre><code>import akka.actor.{ActorRef, Actor, Props}
  import akka.event.Logging
  
  object HelloWorldActor {
    case object Tick
  }
  
  
  class HelloWorldActor extends Actor {
    val logger = Logging(context.system, this)
    var greeter : Option[ActorRef] = None
  
    override def preStart() = {
      greeter = Some(context.actorOf(Props[Greeter], "greeter"))
    }
  
    def doGreet(): Unit = {
      logger.info("doing greet")
      greeter match {
        case Some(g) =&gt; g ! Greeter.Greet
      }
    }
    def receive: Actor.Receive = {
      case HelloWorldActor.Tick =&gt; this.doGreet()
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The only thing I can think of is that I have defined a kernel to run it in stand-alone mode and I'm not sure if there is something extra that I should be doing there to load the configuration. </p>
  
  <p>I've put my project up on GitHub for better inspection of what I am doing:<a href="https://github.com/JohnMurray/hello-akka" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/JohnMurray/hello-akka</a></p>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated since I'm currently an Akka newbie. Also, I should mention that I have read through the config documentation online, but it didn't help me in this particular case.</p>
  
  <p>thanks!</p>