diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
index 84ebf7f529..7b172917d0 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Logging/Logger.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ namespace Umbraco.Core.Logging
         {
             Serilog.Debugging.SelfLog.Enable(msg => System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(msg));
 
+            //Set this environment variable - so that it can be used in external config file
+            //add key="serilog:write-to:RollingFile.pathFormat" value="%BASEDIR%\logs\log-{Date}.txt" />
+            Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("BASEDIR", AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process);
+
+
             Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                 .MinimumLevel.Debug() //Set to highest level of logging (as any sinks may want to restrict it to Errors only)
                 .Enrich.WithProcessId()
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config
index 3345be319a..9465b6b6e5 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Web.UI/config/serilog.config
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
         <!-- Write to a user log file -->
         <add key="serilog:using:File" value="Serilog.Sinks.File" />
-        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.path" value="c:/code/warren-log.txt" /><!-- Can we do a relative path to website ? -->
+        <add key="serilog:write-to:File.path" value="%BASEDIR%\logs\warren-log.txt" /><!-- Can we do a relative path to website ? -->
         <add key="serilog:write-to:File.restrictedToMinimumLevel" value="Debug" /> 
         <add key="serilog:write-to:File.retainedFileCountLimit" value="32" /> <!-- Number of log files to keep (or remove value to keep all files) -->
         <add key="serilog:write-to:File.rollingInterval" value="Day" /> <!-- Create a new log file every Minute/Hour/Day/Month/Year/infinite -->