diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 83ee8aab..d1d6cba3 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,49 +1,59 @@
-# -------------------
-# Build Stage 1 (npm)
-# -------------------
-FROM node:alpine AS appbuild
-
-RUN apk add --update --no-cache p7zip
-
-WORKDIR /usr/src/app
-
-COPY ./package.json ./
-RUN npm install
-
-COPY . ./
-RUN npm run build:prod
-# RUN npm run build
-
-
-# ------------------------
-# Build Stage 2 (composer)
-# ------------------------
-FROM composer AS apibuild
-
-WORKDIR /app
-
-COPY ./src/api ./
-RUN composer install
-
-
-# --------------------------
-# Build Stage 3 (php-apache)
-# This build takes the production build from staging builds
-# --------------------------
-FROM php:7.3-apache
-
-ENV PROJECT /var/www/html
-
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y sqlite3 php7.3-sqlite
-RUN a2enmod rewrite expires
-# RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
-
-# RUN pecl install xdebug && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug
-# COPY xdebug.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini
-
-WORKDIR $PROJECT
-COPY --from=appbuild /usr/src/app/dist ./
-RUN rm -rf ./api/*
-COPY --from=apibuild /app ./api/
-RUN chmod 777 ./api
-EXPOSE 80
+# -------------------
+# Build Stage 1 (npm)
+# -------------------
+FROM node:alpine AS appbuild
+
+RUN apk add --update --no-cache \
+            p7zip               \
+            python2             \
+            build-base          \
+            curl                \
+            php7                \
+            php7-json           \
+            php7-phar           \
+            php7-iconv          \
+            php7-openssl        \
+            php7-dom            \
+            php7-mbstring       \
+            php7-xml            \
+            php7-xmlwriter      \
+            php7-ctype          \
+            php7-tokenizer
+
+# Install Composer
+RUN curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
+
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app
+
+COPY ./package.json ./
+
+COPY . ./
+
+RUN npm install
+
+RUN npm run build:prod
+# RUN npm run build
+
+# --------------------------
+# Build Stage 2 (php-apache)
+# This build takes the production build from staging builds
+# --------------------------
+FROM php:7.3-apache
+
+ENV PROJECT /var/www/html
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y sqlite3 php7.3-sqlite
+RUN a2enmod rewrite expires
+# RUN docker-php-ext-install pdo_mysql
+
+# RUN pecl install xdebug && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug
+# COPY xdebug.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/xdebug.ini
+
+WORKDIR $PROJECT
+COPY --from=appbuild /usr/src/app/dist ./
+RUN chown 33:33 ./api && chown 33:33 ./api/db && \
+    mkdir ./api/logs && chown 33:33 ./api/logs
+
+EXPOSE 80
+
+VOLUME $PROJECT/api/db
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index cca2b66a..6b1ca649 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-version: "3"
-
-services:
-  taskboard:
-    image: "taskboard"
-    build:
-      context: .
-    ports:
-      - "8081:80"
+version: "3"
+
+services:
+  taskboard:
+    image: "taskboard"
+    build:
+      context: .
+    ports:
+      - "80:80"
+    volumes:
+      - database:/var/www/html/api/db
+
+volumes:
+  database:
diff --git a/src/api/index.php b/src/api/index.php
index 51d888e2..17a16dc5 100644
--- a/src/api/index.php
+++ b/src/api/index.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 require './vendor/autoload.php';
 
-R::setup('sqlite:taskboard.sqlite');
+R::setup('sqlite:db/taskboard.sqlite');
 
 $container = new DI\Container();
 AppFactory::setContainer($container);