diff --git a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
index 249f01cb..3fc51180 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/logback-spring.xml
@@ -8,13 +8,17 @@
         defaultValue="localhost:4569" />
         
   <appender name="FILE" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
-    <file>${loggingFile}</file>
+    <file>/usr/local/msgexchangeapi/logs/msgexchangeapi.log</file>
     <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy">
-       <fileNamePattern>${loggingFile}.%i-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}</fileNamePattern>
-       <!-- each file should be at most 100MB, keep 60 days worth of history, but at most 20GB -->
-       <maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>    
-       <maxHistory>60</maxHistory>
-       <totalSizeCap>20GB</totalSizeCap>
+       <fileNamePattern>/usr/local/msgexchangeapi/logs/msgexchangeapi.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.%i.log.zip</fileNamePattern>
+       <!-- Maximum size of the log file until it gets rolled over -->
+      <maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>
+      
+      <!-- Maximum number of days to keep the log files -->
+      <maxHistory>60</maxHistory>
+      
+      <!-- Total size cap for all log files -->
+      <totalSizeCap>10GB</totalSizeCap>
     </rollingPolicy>
     <encoder>
       <pattern>%date %level [%thread] %logger{10} [%file:%line] %msg %n</pattern>