1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/config.cpp b/config.cpp
index b892317..342d973 100644
--- a/config.cpp
+++ b/config.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <exception>
 #include <iostream>
 
+namespace fs = std::filesystem;
 namespace pt = boost::property_tree;
 using namespace std::string_literals;
 
@@ -26,15 +27,16 @@ namespace {
 
 } // anonymous namespace
 
-void Config::readConfigfile(std::string filename)
+void Config::readConfigfile(const std::filesystem::path& filename)
 {
- if (filename == "") {
-  filename = default_filename;
+ fs::path used_filename{filename};
+ if (used_filename.empty()) {
+  used_filename = default_filename;
  }
 
  pt::ptree tree;
 
- pt::read_xml(filename, tree, pt::xml_parser::no_comments | pt::xml_parser::trim_whitespace);
+ pt::read_xml(used_filename, tree, pt::xml_parser::no_comments | pt::xml_parser::trim_whitespace);
 
  // mandatory
  m_user = tree.get<std::string>("webserver.user");
@@ -203,7 +205,7 @@ void Config::create_look_up_table()
  }
 }
 
-Config::Config(const std::string& filename)
+Config::Config(const std::filesystem::path& filename)
 {
  readConfigfile(filename);
  dump();