diff --git a/tests/travis/_config.php b/tests/travis/_config.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f12cc84c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/travis/_config.php
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+
+global $project;
+$project = 'mysite';
+
+global $database;
+$database = '';
+
+require_once('conf/ConfigureFromEnv.php');
+
+global $databaseConfig;
+$databaseConfig['memory'] = true;
+$databaseConfig['path'] = dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) .'/assets/';
+
+MySQLDatabase::set_connection_charset('utf8');
+
+// Set the current theme. More themes can be downloaded from
+// http://www.silverstripe.org/themes/
+SSViewer::set_theme('simple');
+
+// Enable nested URLs for this site (e.g. page/sub-page/)
+if(class_exists('SiteTree')) SiteTree::enable_nested_urls();
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/travis/_ss_environment.php b/tests/travis/_ss_environment.php
index 9ddea0574..9b77c4788 100644
--- a/tests/travis/_ss_environment.php
+++ b/tests/travis/_ss_environment.php
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ ob_start();
 define('SS_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE', 'dev');
 
 /* Database connection */ 
-define('SS_DATABASE_CLASS', 'SQLite3Database');
-define('SS_DATABASE_SERVER', ':memory:'); 
+define('SS_DATABASE_CLASS', 'SQLitePDODatabase');
+define('SS_DATABASE_SERVER', 'localhost'); 
 define('SS_DATABASE_USERNAME', 'root'); 
 define('SS_DATABASE_PASSWORD', '');
 define('SS_DATABASE_CHOOSE_NAME', true);
diff --git a/tests/travis/before_script b/tests/travis/before_script
index fd5f7c63c..17ab5f066 100755
--- a/tests/travis/before_script
+++ b/tests/travis/before_script
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 BUILD_DIR=$1
-git clone git://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer.git $BUILD_DIR
+git clone --depth=100 --quiet git://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-installer.git $BUILD_DIR
+git clone --depth=100 --quiet git://github.com/silverstripe-labs/silverstripe-sqlite3.git $BUILD_DIR/sqlite3
 cp ./tests/travis/_ss_environment.php $BUILD_DIR
+cp ./tests/travis/_config.php $BUILD_DIR/mysite
 cp -r . $BUILD_DIR/framework
 
 cd $BUILD_DIR