diff --git a/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf b/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf
index 6321d6d..392e4e2 100644
--- a/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf
+++ b/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf
@@ -1,2 +1,40 @@
 [uwsgi]
 route = ^(?!/api).*$ basicauth:Restricted,/srv/app/.htpasswd
+
+socket = /tmp/uwsgi.sock
+uid = ckan
+gid = ckan
+http = :5000
+
+master = true
+enable-threads = true
+lazy-apps = true
+gevent-early-monkey-patch = true
+vacuum = true
+single-interpreter= true 
+die-on-term = true
+need-app = true
+auto-procname = true 
+
+wsgi-file = /srv/app/wsgi.py
+module = wsgi:application
+gevent = 2000
+logto = /var/log/uwsgi/uwsgi.log
+callable = application
+paste = config:/srv/app/production.ini 
+paste-logger = /srv/app/production.ini 
+
+post-buffering = 1 
+buffer-size= 12288
+max-requests = 3000 
+max-worker-lifetime = 3600 
+reload-on-rss = 4096 
+worker-reload-mercy = 60 
+socket-timeout = 300
+queue = 1000 
+queue-blocksize = 204800 
+static-gzip-all = true
+listen = 1000 
+http-timeout = 1000 
+http-headers-timeout = 1000
+http-connect-timeout = 1000
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/start_ckan.sh b/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/start_ckan.sh
index 23747fb..58dffd7 100755
--- a/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/start_ckan.sh
+++ b/images/ckan/2.9/setup/app/start_ckan.sh
@@ -30,9 +30,6 @@ then
     ckan config-tool $APP_DIR/production.ini "api_token.jwt.decode.secret=$(python3 -c 'import secrets; print("string:" + secrets.token_urlsafe())')"
 fi
 
-echo "Starting UWSGI with '${UWSGI_PROC_NO:-2}' workers"
-uwsgi --ini uwsgi.conf -p ${UWSGI_PROC_NO:-2}
-
 # Run the prerun script to init CKAN and create the default admin user
 python prerun.py || { echo '[CKAN prerun] FAILED. Exiting...' ; exit 1; }
 
@@ -62,14 +59,15 @@ then
       # Generate htpasswd file for basicauth
       htpasswd -d -b -c /srv/app/.htpasswd $HTPASSWD_USER $HTPASSWD_PASSWORD
       # Start uwsgi with basicauth
-      uwsgi --ini /srv/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf --pcre-jit $UWSGI_OPTS
+      uwsgi --ini /srv/app/basic-auth-uwsgi.conf -p ${UWSGI_PROC_NO:-2} --pcre-jit 
     else
       echo "Missing HTPASSWD_USER or HTPASSWD_PASSWORD environment variables. Exiting..."
       exit 1
     fi
   else
     # Start uwsgi
-    uwsgi $UWSGI_OPTS
+    echo "Starting UWSGI with '${UWSGI_PROC_NO:-2}' workers"
+    uwsgi --ini /srv/app/uwsgi.conf -p ${UWSGI_PROC_NO:-2}
   fi
 else
   echo "[prerun] failed...not starting CKAN."