diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 2d22c6a64..dd9b8e227 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from os import path
 # is relative to the documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it
 # absolute, like shown here.
 sys.path.append(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), "_ext"))
-sys.path.append(path.join(path.dirname(path.dirname(__file__)), "scrapy"))
+sys.path.insert(0, path.dirname(path.dirname(__file__)))
 
 
 # General configuration