diff --git a/CalibreWebCompanion/CalibreWebCompanion/uwsgi.ini b/CalibreWebCompanion/CalibreWebCompanion/uwsgi.ini
index fe22f92..e388ecd 100644
--- a/CalibreWebCompanion/CalibreWebCompanion/uwsgi.ini
+++ b/CalibreWebCompanion/CalibreWebCompanion/uwsgi.ini
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ die-on-term = true
 harakiri = 20 
 max-requests = 5000
 logs = %(base)/uwsgi_info.logs
-daemonize = %(base)/uwsgi.logs
\ No newline at end of file
+daemonize = %(base)/uwsgi.logs
+plugins = python3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index c6bb617..555cb7a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ RUN apt-get clean && \
     apt-get update && \
     apt-get install -y nginx smbclient default-libmysqlclient-dev \
      gcc python3-cffi libcairo2 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
-     libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info uwsgi-core
+     libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info uwsgi-core uwsgi-plugin-python3
 
 # set environment variables
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1