diff --git a/lib/InstallService.js b/lib/InstallService.js
index bdbb511..f15acc5 100644
--- a/lib/InstallService.js
+++ b/lib/InstallService.js
@@ -1,5 +1,52 @@
+
+//dependencies
+var process = require('process');
+var path    = require('path');
+var util    = require('util');
+var fs      = require('fs');
+
 var InstallService = function(){};
 
+InstallService.promptSchema = Object.freeze({
+    properties: {
+        siteName: {
+            description: 'Site Name',
+            default: 'My PencilBlue Site',
+            type: 'string'
+        },
+        siteRoot: {
+            description: 'Site Root',
+            default: 'http://localhost:8080',
+            type: 'string'
+        },
+        siteIP: {
+            description: 'Address to bind to',
+            default: '0.0.0.0',
+            type: 'string'
+        },
+        sitePort: {
+            description: 'Site Port',
+            default: 8080,
+            type: 'number'
+        },
+        mongoServer: {
+            description: 'MongoDB URL',
+            default: 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/',
+            type: 'string'
+        },
+        dbName: {
+            description: 'Database Name',
+            default: 'pencilblue',
+            type: 'string'
+        },
+        bower: {
+            description: 'Do you want to install Bower components?',
+            default: 'y/N',
+            type: 'string'
+        }
+    }
+});
+
 InstallService.prototype.install = function(directory) {
 	if(!shell.which('git')) {
 		console.log('In order to install PencilBlue, Git must first be installed.');
@@ -7,101 +54,64 @@ InstallService.prototype.install = function(directory) {
 		return;
 	}
 
-	var promptSchema = {
-		properties: {
-			siteName: {
-				description: 'site name',
-				default: 'My PencilBlue Site',
-				type: 'string'
-			},
-			siteRoot: {
-				description: 'site root',
-				default: 'http://localhost:8080',
-				type: 'string'
-			},
-			siteIP: {
-				description: 'site IP',
-				default: 'localhost',
-				type: 'string'
-			},
-			sitePort: {
-				description: 'site port',
-				default: 8080,
-				type: 'number'
-			},
-			mongoServer: {
-				description: 'MongoDB URL',
-				default: 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/',
-				type: 'string'
-			},
-			dbName: {
-				description: 'database name',
-				default: 'pencilblue',
-				type: 'string'
-			},
-			bower: {
-				description: 'Do you want to install Bower components?',
-				default: 'y/N',
-				type: 'string'
-			}
-		}
-	};
-
+    //prompt with options
 	prompt.message = "PencilBlue".cyan;
-
 	prompt.start();
-	prompt.get(promptSchema, function(err, siteSettings) {
+	prompt.get(InstallService.promptSchema, function(err, siteSettings) {
 		if(err) {
 			throw err;
 		}
 
-		console.log('Installing PencilBlue to ' + directory + '/...');
+        //clone the repo
+        var installDir = path.join(process.cwd(), directory);
+		console.log('Installing PencilBlue to %s/...', installDir);
 		shell.exec('git clone https://github.com/pencilblue/pencilblue.git ' + directory);
-		shell.cd(directory);
-
+		
+        //change down into installation directory to perform dependency install
 		console.log('Installing Node modules...');
+        shell.cd(directory);
 		shell.exec('npm install');
 
+        //verify bower settings
 		if(siteSettings.bower.toLowerCase() === 'y' || siteSettings.bower.toLowerCase() === 'yes') {
-			if(shell.which('bower')) {
-				console.log('Retrieving Bower components...');
-				shell.exec('bower install');
-			}
-			else {
+            
+            var bowerComponentInstallCmd = 'bower install';
+			if(!shell.which('bower')) {
 				console.log('Installing Bower...');
 				shell.exec('npm install bower');
-
-				console.log('Retrieving Bower components...');
-				shell.exec('node_modules/.bin/bower install');
+                
+                //set the local bower command
+                bowerComponentInstallCmd = 'node_modules/.bin/bower install';
 			}
+            
+            //install bower components 
+            console.log('Retrieving Bower components...');
+            shell.exec(bowerComponentInstallCmd);
 		}
 
-		console.log('Creating config.json...');
-
-		fs.readFile(process.cwd() + '/sample.config.json', function(err, data) {
-			if(err) {
-				throw err;
-			}
-
-			var config = JSON.parse(data);
-			delete config.CAN_BE_REMOVED;
-			config.siteName = siteSettings.siteName;
-			config.siteRoot = siteSettings.siteRoot;
-			config.siteIP = siteSettings.siteIP;
-			config.sitePort = siteSettings.sitePort;
-			config.db.servers[0] = siteSettings.mongoServer;
-			config.db.name = siteSettings.dbName;
-
-			fs.writeFile(process.cwd() + '/config.json', JSON.stringify(config, null, "    "), function(err) {
-				if(err) {
-					throw err;
-				}
+        //create configuration.  Step 1 is to read in the export from the sample configuration file
+		console.log('Creating config.js...');
+        var sampleFile = path.join(process.cwd(), '/sample.config.js')
+        var config = require(sampleFile);
+        
+        //step 2 is to replace the properties
+        config.siteName = siteSettings.siteName;
+        config.siteRoot = siteSettings.siteRoot;
+        config.siteIP = siteSettings.siteIP;
+        config.sitePort = siteSettings.sitePort;
+        config.db.servers[0] = siteSettings.mongoServer;
+        config.db.name = siteSettings.dbName;
+        
+        //step 3 is magic.  We use a regex pattern to find the object exported 
+        //by the "module.exports" statement.  We replace the match with the 
+        //serialized config object we set properties on in step 2.
+        var replacement = 'module.exports = ' + JSON.stringify(config, null, 4) + ';\n';
+        var configStr = fs.readFileSync(sampleFile).toString().replace(/module\.exports[.\s\S]*\};/, replacement);
 
-				console.log('PencilBlue successfully installed.');
-				shell.exit(1);
-			});
-		});
+        //step 4 we write the configuration to disk
+		fs.writeFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), '/config.js'), configStr);
 	});
 };
 
+//exports
 module.exports = InstallService;