diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index d3ad8613..fe56e31c 100755
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "GenieBuilder"
 uuid = "c9453c14-af8a-11ec-351d-c7c9a2035d70"
 authors = ["Adrian Salceanu"]
-version = "0.16.46"
+version = "0.16.47"
 
 [deps]
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ZipFile = "a5390f91-8eb1-5f08-bee0-b1d1ffed6cea"
 
 [compat]
 Dates = "1.6"
-Genie = "5.23.8"
+Genie = "5.24.0"
 GenieAutoReload = "2.2.2"
 GenieDevTools = "2.9.1"
 GeniePackageManager = "1.1.0"
diff --git a/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl b/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
index f5d3033a..e449461b 100755
--- a/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
+++ b/app/resources/applications/ApplicationsController.jl
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ using Dates
 using Scratch
 using ZipFile
 using TOML
+using Logging
 
 import StippleUI
 import GeniePackageManager
@@ -470,6 +471,8 @@ function start(app::Application)
                                                 Pkg._auto_gc_enabled[] = false;
                                                 Pkg.activate(".");
 
+                                                isfile("Manifest.toml") || Pkg.instantiate();
+
                                                 using GenieFramework;
                                                 using GenieFramework.Revise;
 
@@ -972,6 +975,27 @@ function status()
 end
 
 
+"""
+  settings()
+
+Returns the settings of the GenieBuilder server
+"""
+function settings()
+  logger_description = string(Logging.global_logger())
+  m = match(r"IOStream\(<file (.*)>\)", logger_description)
+  log_file = ""
+  if m !== nothing
+    log_file = m.captures[1]
+  end
+
+  Dict(
+    :settings => Dict(
+      :logfile => log_file,
+    )
+  ) |> json
+end
+
+
 function download(app::Application)
   app_path = fullpath(app)
   endswith(app_path, "/") && (app_path = app_path[1:end-1])
diff --git a/config/initializers/logging.jl b/config/initializers/logging.jl
index 575879eb..d3f1cfcb 100755
--- a/config/initializers/logging.jl
+++ b/config/initializers/logging.jl
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 import Genie
 
-Genie.Logger.initialize_logging()
\ No newline at end of file
+log_path, log_name = if haskey(ENV, "GB_LOG_FILE") && ispath(dirname(ENV["GB_LOG_FILE"]))
+    (dirname(ENV["GB_LOG_FILE"]), basename(ENV["GB_LOG_FILE"]))
+else
+    Genie.config.path_log, Genie.Logger.default_log_name()
+end
+
+Genie.Logger.initialize_logging(; log_path, log_name)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/routes.jl b/routes.jl
index a82da139..2f711ed2 100755
--- a/routes.jl
+++ b/routes.jl
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ function register_routes()
     ApplicationsController.status()
   end
 
+  # returns the settings of the GenieBuilder server
+  route("$gb_route/settings") do
+    ApplicationsController.settings()
+  end
+
   nothing
 end