diff --git a/ara/server/configs/integration.cfg b/ara/server/configs/integration.cfg
index bf449e8..1458f0a 100644
--- a/ara/server/configs/integration.cfg
+++ b/ara/server/configs/integration.cfg
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 debug = true
 log_level = DEBUG
 secret_key = integration
-allowed_hosts = testserver
+allowed_hosts = localhost
diff --git a/ara/server/settings.py b/ara/server/settings.py
index 15fc11c..d349121 100644
--- a/ara/server/settings.py
+++ b/ara/server/settings.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ SECRET_KEY = env("SECRET_KEY")
 
 DEBUG = env.bool("DEBUG", default=False)
 
-ALLOWED_HOSTS = env("ALLOWED_HOSTS", cast=list, default=[])
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = env.list("ALLOWED_HOSTS", default=[])
 
 ADMINS = ()
 
diff --git a/ara/server/utils.py b/ara/server/utils.py
index d625811..1603162 100644
--- a/ara/server/utils.py
+++ b/ara/server/utils.py
@@ -1,12 +1,47 @@
 import os
 
 import environ
+from configobj import ConfigObj
 from everett import ConfigurationError
-from everett.manager import ConfigEnvFileEnv, ConfigIniEnv, ConfigManager, ConfigOSEnv
+from everett.manager import ConfigEnvFileEnv, ConfigIniEnv, ConfigManager, ConfigOSEnv, listify
 
 __all__ = ["EverettEnviron"]
 
 
+class DumbConfigIniEnv(ConfigIniEnv):
+    """Simple ConfigIniEnv with disabled list parsing that actually aborts after the first file."""
+
+    # TODO: Remove once upstream is fixed (https://github.com/willkg/everett/pull/71)
+
+    def __init__(self, possible_paths):
+        self.cfg = {}
+        possible_paths = listify(possible_paths)
+
+        for path in possible_paths:
+            if not path:
+                continue
+
+            path = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path.strip()))
+            if path and os.path.isfile(path):
+                self.cfg = self.parse_ini_file(path)
+                break
+
+    def parse_ini_file(cls, path):
+        cfgobj = ConfigObj(path, list_values=False)
+
+        def extract_section(namespace, d):
+            cfg = {}
+            for key, val in d.items():
+                if isinstance(d[key], dict):
+                    cfg.update(extract_section(namespace + [key], d[key]))
+                else:
+                    cfg["_".join(namespace + [key]).upper()] = val
+
+            return cfg
+
+        return extract_section([], cfgobj.dict())
+
+
 class EnvironProxy:
     def __init__(self, cfg):
         self.cfg = cfg
@@ -20,7 +55,7 @@ class EnvironProxy:
 
     def __getitem__(self, key):
         try:
-            return self.cfg(key)
+            return self.cfg(key, raw_value=True)
         except ConfigurationError as err:
             raise KeyError("Missing key %r" % key) from err
 
@@ -34,7 +69,7 @@ class EverettEnviron(environ.Env):
                 [
                     ConfigOSEnv(),
                     ConfigEnvFileEnv(".env"),
-                    ConfigIniEnv([os.environ.get("ARA_CFG"), "~/.config/ara/server.cfg", "/etc/ara/server.cfg"]),
+                    DumbConfigIniEnv([os.environ.get("ARA_CFG"), "~/.config/ara/server.cfg", "/etc/ara/server.cfg"]),
                 ]
             ).with_namespace("ara")
         )