diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
index 5c9b8b5..6f3b4d7 100755
--- a/start.sh
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ if ! [ -f /app/data/.installed ]; then
   echo "Done."
 fi
 
+
+echo "Symlinking log file"
+rm -f /app/data/users/_/log_api.txt
+touch /tmp/log_api.txt
+ln -s /tmp/log_api.txt /app/data/users/_/log_api.txt
+
+
+echo "Symlinking packaged extensions"
 mkdir -p /app/data/extensions
 for f in $(ls /app/code/extensions-orig); do
   if ! [ -e "/app/data/extensions/$f" ]; then
@@ -36,7 +44,7 @@ php cli/reconfigure.php --default_user admin --base_url "https://${APP_DOMAIN}/p
 
 
 echo "Setting permissions"
-chown -R www-data.www-data /run/php /app/data
+chown -R www-data.www-data /run/php /app/data /tmp/log_api.txt
 
 
 echo "Starting apache"