diff --git a/awx/main/migrations/_team_cleanup.py b/awx/main/migrations/_team_cleanup.py
index 1a937d1f88..5af2b26492 100644
--- a/awx/main/migrations/_team_cleanup.py
+++ b/awx/main/migrations/_team_cleanup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ def log_migration(wrapped):
     as it runs, Django resets this, so we use a decorator
     to re-add the handler for each method.
     '''
-    handler = logging.FileHandler("/tmp/tower_rbac_migrations.log", mode="a", encoding="UTF-8")
+    handler = logging.FileHandler("/var/log/tower/tower_rbac_migrations.log", mode="a", encoding="UTF-8")
     formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
     handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
     handler.setFormatter(formatter)
diff --git a/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh b/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
index 16d859a3ce..634dc02749 100755
--- a/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
+++ b/tools/docker-compose/start_development.sh
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m wait_for -a "host=redis port=6379" all
 ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m postgresql_user -U postgres -a "name=awx-dev password=AWXsome1 login_user=postgres login_host=postgres" all
 ansible -i "127.0.0.1," -c local -v -m postgresql_db -U postgres -a "name=awx-dev owner=awx-dev login_user=postgres login_host=postgres" all
 
+# For migration log
+mkdir -p /var/log/tower/
+
 # Move to the source directory so we can bootstrap
 if [ -f "/tower_devel/manage.py" ]; then
     cd /tower_devel