diff --git a/s6/debian-root/etc/services.d/lighttpd/run b/s6/debian-root/etc/services.d/lighttpd/run
index a9b2bf6..a1c45b8 100644
--- a/s6/debian-root/etc/services.d/lighttpd/run
+++ b/s6/debian-root/etc/services.d/lighttpd/run
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash
 
 s6-echo "Starting lighttpd"
+
+# Touch log files to ensure they exist (create if non-existing, preserve if existing)
+touch /var/log/lighttpd/access.log /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
+
+# Ensure that permissions are set so that lighttpd can write to the logs
+chown www-data:www-data /var/log/lighttpd/access.log /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
+chmod 0644 /var/log/lighttpd/access.log /var/log/lighttpd/error.log
+
 lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf