diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e9f24a0..7717604 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ FROM ubuntu:14.04
 MAINTAINER Knut Ahlers <knut@ahlers.me>
 
 RUN useradd -m shoutcast && \
-    mkdir /opt/shoutcast
+    mkdir /opt/shoutcast && \
+    mkdir /var/log/shoutcast && \
+    chown shoutcast /var/log/shoutcast
 
 WORKDIR /opt/shoutcast
 
diff --git a/shoutcast.conf b/shoutcast.conf
index 0461e3b..416315f 100644
--- a/shoutcast.conf
+++ b/shoutcast.conf
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 ; will be stored. make sure that these folders exist else
 ; sc_serv will throw an error and will close itself down.
 ; we will make the logs save to the sc_serv2 directory
-logfile=/var/log/sc_serv.log
-w3clog=/var/log/sc_w3c.log
+logfile=/var/log/shoutcast/sc_serv.log
+w3clog=/var/log/shoutcast/sc_w3c.log
 banfile=/etc/shoutcast/sc_serv.ban
 ripfile=/etc/shoutcast/sc_serv.rip