diff --git a/modules/config.nix b/modules/config.nix
index ac02515..a25cebe 100644
--- a/modules/config.nix
+++ b/modules/config.nix
@@ -5,8 +5,80 @@
 }:
 with lib; let
   cfg = config.services.declarative-jellyfin;
+  isStrList = x: builtins.all (x: builtins.isString x) x;
+  prepass = x:
+    if (builtins.isAttrs x)
+    then
+      if !(builtins.hasAttr "tag" x)
+      then
+        attrsets.mapAttrsToList
+        (tag: value: {
+          inherit tag;
+          content = prepass value;
+        })
+        x
+      else if (builtins.hasAttr "content" x)
+      then {
+        tag = x.tag;
+        content = prepass x.content;
+      }
+      else x
+    else if (builtins.isList x)
+    then
+      if (isStrList x)
+      then
+        (builtins.map
+          (content: {
+            tag = "string";
+            inherit content;
+          })
+          x)
+      else builtins.map prepass x
+    else x;
+
+  toXml = tag: x: (toXml' {
+    inherit tag;
+    attrib = {
+      "xmlns:xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
+      "xmlns:xsd" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
+    };
+    content = prepass x;
+  });
 in {
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    # TODO: implement
-  };
+  config =
+    mkIf cfg.enable
+    {
+      system.activationScripts = {
+        link-config-xml =
+          lib.stringAfter ["var"]
+          (
+            let
+              commands =
+                builtins.concatStringsSep "\n"
+                (builtins.map
+                  (x: "cp -s \"${pkgs.writeText x.file (toXml x.name x.content)}\" \"/var/lib/jellyfin/config/${x.file}\"")
+                  [
+                    {
+                      name = "NetworkConfiguration";
+                      file = "network.xml";
+                      content = cfg.network;
+                    }
+                    {
+                      name = "EncodingOptions";
+                      file = "encoding.xml";
+                      content = cfg.encoding;
+                    }
+                    {
+                      name = "ServerConfiguration";
+                      file = "system.xml";
+                      content = cfg.system;
+                    }
+                  ]);
+            in ''
+              mkdir -p "/var/lib/jellyfin/config"
+              ${commands}
+            ''
+          );
+      };
+    };
 }
diff --git a/modules/options/default.nix b/modules/options/default.nix
index 1c89371..37d014b 100644
--- a/modules/options/default.nix
+++ b/modules/options/default.nix
@@ -17,83 +17,4 @@ in
     options.services.declarative-jellyfin = {
       enable = mkEnableOption "Jellyfin Service";
     };
-
-    config =
-      mkIf cfg.enable
-      (
-        let
-          isStrList = x: builtins.all (x: builtins.isString x) x;
-          prepass = x:
-            if (builtins.isAttrs x)
-            then
-              if !(builtins.hasAttr "tag" x)
-              then
-                attrsets.mapAttrsToList
-                (tag: value: {
-                  inherit tag;
-                  content = prepass value;
-                })
-                x
-              else if (builtins.hasAttr "content" x)
-              then {
-                tag = x.tag;
-                content = prepass x.content;
-              }
-              else x
-            else if (builtins.isList x)
-            then
-              if (isStrList x)
-              then
-                (builtins.map
-                  (content: {
-                    tag = "string";
-                    inherit content;
-                  })
-                  x)
-              else builtins.map prepass x
-            else x;
-
-          toXml = tag: x: (toXml' {
-            inherit tag;
-            attrib = {
-              "xmlns:xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
-              "xmlns:xsd" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
-            };
-            content = prepass x;
-          });
-        in {
-          system.activationScripts = {
-            link-network-xml =
-              lib.stringAfter ["var"]
-              (
-                let
-                  storeFile = pkgs.writeText "network.xml" (toXml "NetworkConfiguration" cfg.network);
-                in ''
-                  mkdir -p "/var/lib/jellyfin/config"
-                  cp -s "${storeFile}" "/var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml"
-                ''
-              );
-            link-encoding-xml =
-              lib.stringAfter ["var"]
-              (
-                let
-                  storeFile = pkgs.writeText "encoding.xml" (toXml "EncodingOptions" cfg.network);
-                in ''
-                  mkdir -p "/var/lib/jellyfin/config"
-                  cp -s "${storeFile}" "/var/lib/jellyfin/config/encoding.xml"
-                ''
-              );
-            link-system-xml =
-              lib.stringAfter ["var"]
-              (
-                let
-                  storeFile = pkgs.writeText "system.xml" (toXml "ServerConfiguration" cfg.network);
-                in ''
-                  mkdir -p "/var/lib/jellyfin/config"
-                  cp -s "${storeFile}" "/var/lib/jellyfin/config/system.xml"
-                ''
-              );
-          };
-        }
-      );
   }
diff --git a/tests/networking.nix b/tests/xml.nix
similarity index 71%
rename from tests/networking.nix
rename to tests/xml.nix
index 79c737d..908219a 100644
--- a/tests/networking.nix
+++ b/tests/xml.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,27 @@ in {
           ../modules/default.nix
         ];
 
+        # assertions = let
+        #   toXml = (import ../lib {nixpkgs = pkgs;}).toXMLGeneric;
+        # in [
+        #   {
+        #     assertion =
+        #       toXml {tag = "test";}
+        #       == ''
+        #         <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
+        #         <test />
+        #
+        #       '';
+        #     message = "Generated XML is incorrect!";
+        #   }
+        #   {
+        #     assertion = false;
+        #     message = "lmao";
+        #   }
+        # ];
+
+        ass = false;
+
         virtualisation.memorySize = 1024 * 2;
 
         services.declarative-jellyfin = {
@@ -27,15 +48,12 @@ in {
       };
     };
 
-    # stfu i dont care about python linting
-    # skipLint = true;
-
     testScript = ''
       import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
       machine.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target");
 
-      with subtest("Jellyfin URI"):
+      with subtest("Networking"):
         # stupid fucking hack because you cant open files in python for some reason
         xml = machine.succeed("cat /var/lib/jellyfin/config/network.xml")
         tree = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(xml))