diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ccfaaf4..fdaa7a9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ The purpose of this server is to abstract your LLM backend from your frontend AP
 
 ### Install
 
+also need to create /var/log/localllm
+
 1. `sudo apt install redis`
 2. `python3 -m venv venv`
 3. `source venv/bin/activate`
diff --git a/llm_server/logging.py b/llm_server/logging.py
index 7e9aa74..594f609 100644
--- a/llm_server/logging.py
+++ b/llm_server/logging.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+import sys
 
 import coloredlogs
 
@@ -28,9 +30,10 @@ class LoggingInfo:
 
 
 logging_info = LoggingInfo()
+LOG_DIRECTORY = None
 
 
-def init_logging():
+def init_logging(filepath:Path=None):
     """
     Set up the parent logger.
     :return:
@@ -38,6 +41,18 @@ def init_logging():
     logger = logging.getLogger('llm_server')
     logger.setLevel(logging_info.level)
 
+    if filepath:
+        p = Path(filepath)
+        if not p.parent.is_dir():
+            logger.fatal(f'Log directory does not exist: {p.parent}')
+            sys.exit(1)
+        LOG_DIRECTORY = p.parent
+        handler = logging.FileHandler(filepath)
+        formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
+        handler.setFormatter(formatter)
+        logger.addHandler(handler)
+
+
 
 def create_logger(name):
     logger = logging.getLogger('llm_server').getChild(name)
@@ -49,4 +64,7 @@ def create_logger(name):
         handler.setFormatter(formatter)
         logger.addHandler(handler)
         coloredlogs.install(logger=logger, level=logging_info.level)
+    if LOG_DIRECTORY:
+        handler = logging.FileHandler(LOG_DIRECTORY / f'{name}.log')
+        logger.addHandler(handler)
     return logger
diff --git a/llm_server/pre_fork.py b/llm_server/pre_fork.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 60e96a1..0000000
--- a/llm_server/pre_fork.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-import time
-import sys
-
-from llm_server.custom_redis import redis
-from llm_server.logging import create_logger
-
-
-def server_startup(s):
-    logger = create_logger('gunicorn')
-    while not redis.get('daemon_started', dtype=bool):
-        logger.warning('Could not find the key daemon_started in Redis. Did you forget to start the daemon process?')
-        time.sleep(10)
diff --git a/other/config.py b/other/config.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e30e7a..0000000
--- a/other/config.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-accesslog="-"
-errorlog="-"
diff --git a/other/gconfig.py b/other/gconfig.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e30e7a..0000000
--- a/other/gconfig.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-accesslog="-"
-errorlog="-"
diff --git a/other/gunicorn.py b/other/gunicorn.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d35975..0000000
--- a/other/gunicorn.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-"""
-This file is used to run certain tasks when the HTTP server starts.
-It's located here so it doesn't get imported with daemon.py
-"""
-from llm_server.logging import create_logger
-
-try:
-    import gevent.monkey
-
-    gevent.monkey.patch_all()
-except ImportError:
-    pass
-
-from llm_server.pre_fork import server_startup
-
-
-def on_starting(s):
-    server_startup(s)
-    logger = create_logger('gunicorn')
-    logger.info('Startup complete!')
diff --git a/other/local-llm-server.service b/other/local-llm-server.service
index 22a8129..99311be 100644
--- a/other/local-llm-server.service
+++ b/other/local-llm-server.service
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Group=server
 WorkingDirectory=/srv/server/local-llm-server
 # Need a lot of workers since we have long-running requests
 # Takes about 3.5G memory
-ExecStart=/srv/server/local-llm-server/venv/bin/gunicorn --workers 20 --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 server:app --timeout 60 --worker-class gevent -c /srv/server/local-llm-server/other/gconfig.py
+ExecStart=/srv/server/local-llm-server/venv/bin/gunicorn --workers 20 --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 server:app --timeout 60 --worker-class gevent
 Restart=always
 RestartSec=2
 SyslogIdentifier=local-llm-server
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 2a9560e..fdb6f96 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import time
+
 try:
     import gevent.monkey
 
@@ -5,6 +7,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
+import logging
 import os
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ from llm_server.database.conn import database
 from llm_server.database.create import create_db
 from llm_server.helpers import auto_set_base_client_api
 from llm_server.llm.vllm.info import vllm_info
-from llm_server.pre_fork import server_startup
+from llm_server.logging import init_logging
 from llm_server.routes.openai import openai_bp, openai_model_bp
 from llm_server.routes.server_error import handle_server_error
 from llm_server.routes.v1 import bp
@@ -66,19 +69,6 @@ except ModuleNotFoundError as e:
     print('Please see README.md for install instructions.')
     sys.exit(1)
 
-app = Flask(__name__)
-
-# Fixes ConcurrentObjectUseError
-# https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/simple-websocket/issues/24
-app.config['SOCK_SERVER_OPTIONS'] = {'ping_interval': 25}
-
-app.register_blueprint(bp, url_prefix='/api/')
-app.register_blueprint(openai_bp, url_prefix='/api/openai/v1/')
-app.register_blueprint(openai_model_bp, url_prefix='/api/openai/')
-init_wssocket(app)
-flask_cache.init_app(app)
-flask_cache.clear()
-
 script_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
 config_path_environ = os.getenv("CONFIG_PATH")
 if config_path_environ:
@@ -91,9 +81,31 @@ if not success:
     print('Failed to load config:', msg)
     sys.exit(1)
 
+init_logging(Path(config['webserver_log_directory']) / 'server.log')
+logger = logging.getLogger('llm_server')
+
+while not redis.get('daemon_started', dtype=bool):
+    logger.warning('Could not find the key daemon_started in Redis. Did you forget to start the daemon process?')
+    time.sleep(10)
+
+logger.info('Started HTTP worker!')
+
 database.init_db(config['mysql']['host'], config['mysql']['username'], config['mysql']['password'], config['mysql']['database'])
 create_db()
 
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+# Fixes ConcurrentObjectUseError
+# https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/simple-websocket/issues/24
+app.config['SOCK_SERVER_OPTIONS'] = {'ping_interval': 25}
+
+app.register_blueprint(bp, url_prefix='/api/')
+app.register_blueprint(openai_bp, url_prefix='/api/openai/v1/')
+app.register_blueprint(openai_model_bp, url_prefix='/api/openai/')
+init_wssocket(app)
+flask_cache.init_app(app)
+flask_cache.clear()
+
 
 @app.route('/')
 @app.route('/api')
@@ -203,6 +215,6 @@ def before_app_request():
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    server_startup(None)
+    # server_startup(None)
     print('FLASK MODE - Startup complete!')
     app.run(host='0.0.0.0', threaded=False, processes=15)