diff --git a/Application/Server.cs b/Application/Server.cs
index 83c4a2c5c..830332d78 100644
--- a/Application/Server.cs
+++ b/Application/Server.cs
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ namespace IW4MAdmin
             // hopefully fix wine drive name mangling
             if (!RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
             {
-                logPath = Regex.Replace(logPath, @"[A-Z]:", "");
+                logPath = Regex.Replace($"{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}{logPath}", @"[A-Z]:", "");
             }
 
             if (!File.Exists(logPath))
diff --git a/SharedLibraryCore/Database/DatabaseContext.cs b/SharedLibraryCore/Database/DatabaseContext.cs
index c50bcaf1c..f04550e01 100644
--- a/SharedLibraryCore/Database/DatabaseContext.cs
+++ b/SharedLibraryCore/Database/DatabaseContext.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
 using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite;
 using SharedLibraryCore.Interfaces;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
 
 namespace SharedLibraryCore.Database
 {
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ namespace SharedLibraryCore.Database
             if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(_ConnectionString))
             {
                 string currentPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase);
+                // allows the application to find the database file
+                currentPath = !RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows) ?
+                    $"{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}{currentPath}" :
+                    currentPath;
                 var connectionStringBuilder = new SqliteConnectionStringBuilder { DataSource = $"{currentPath}{Path.DirectorySeparatorChar}Database.db".Substring(6) };
                 var connectionString = connectionStringBuilder.ToString();
                 var connection = new SqliteConnection(connectionString);