diff --git a/changelogs/unreleased/luarocks-disable-force-config.md b/changelogs/unreleased/luarocks-disable-force-config.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4d18a7a09fe20798749d997aeefb96be54da3aad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/unreleased/luarocks-disable-force-config.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## luarocks
+
+ * set FORCE_CONFIG=false for luarocks config to allow loading project-side .rocks/config-5.1.lua
diff --git a/extra/luarocks/hardcoded.lua.cmake b/extra/luarocks/hardcoded.lua.cmake
index 3f51c1deb9ba4880870d1ee650989e0e0395e5fc..ed2cd45484f74914b8d50933c875ba378de21164 100644
--- a/extra/luarocks/hardcoded.lua.cmake
+++ b/extra/luarocks/hardcoded.lua.cmake
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ LUA_INTERPRETER=[[tarantool]],
 LUA_MODULES_LIB_SUBDIR=[[/lib/tarantool]],
 LUA_MODULES_LUA_SUBDIR=[[/share/tarantool]],
 SYSCONFDIR=[[@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_SYSCONFDIR@/tarantool/rocks]],
-FORCE_CONFIG=true,
+FORCE_CONFIG=false,
 ROCKS_TREE=[[/usr/local/]],
 ROCKS_SUBDIR=[[/share/tarantool/rocks]],
 ROCKS_SERVERS={