diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 606e4e72ac9caee0e5f60ad6cb86bf6c4f4adb82..c700106942ae2c086aef81291e1571d412baa68b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ RUN npm run build:prod
 # Stage 1, based on Nginx, to have only the compiled app
 FROM ${DEPENDENCY_PROXY}nginxinc/nginx-unprivileged:1.25
 
+# Copy custom conf to write logs into file to persist them
 COPY nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+RUN mkdir -p /var/log/nginx/persist
 
 # Copy nginx modified conf with template (cf. "Using environment variables in nginx configuration" in https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx )
 COPY nginx/templates/default.conf.template /etc/nginx/templates/default.conf.template
diff --git a/nginx/nginx.conf b/nginx/nginx.conf
index 1b97c544223ce0c09c3ac23f50cc157bf429caca..7c6dadaf7c35b0c92dc6bb1b517a63a87bacc055 100644
--- a/nginx/nginx.conf
+++ b/nginx/nginx.conf
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ http {
     # Default log which is redirected to stdout
     access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;
     # Also write to file to persist logs
-    access_log  /var/log/nginx/persist/access.$time_local.log  main;
+    access_log  /var/log/nginx/persist/access.$year-$month-$day.log  main;
 
     sendfile        on;
     #tcp_nopush     on;