diff --git a/src/load-config.js b/src/load-config.js
index d99ce42..42d1351 100644
--- a/src/load-config.js
+++ b/src/load-config.js
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import createDebug from 'debug';
 
-const debug = createDebug('actual:config');
+// const debug = createDebug('actual:config');
+const debug = console.log;
 const debugSensitive = createDebug('actual-sensitive:config');
 
 const projectRoot = path.dirname(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)));
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ const finalConfig = {
   serverFiles: process.env.ACTUAL_SERVER_FILES || config.serverFiles,
   userFiles: process.env.ACTUAL_USER_FILES || config.userFiles,
   webRoot: process.env.ACTUAL_WEB_ROOT || config.webRoot,
+  dataDir: process.env.ACTUAL_DATA_DIR || config.dataDir,
   https:
     process.env.ACTUAL_HTTPS_KEY && process.env.ACTUAL_HTTPS_CERT
       ? {
diff --git a/src/migrations.js b/src/migrations.js
index cba7db0..9983471 100644
--- a/src/migrations.js
+++ b/src/migrations.js
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import migrate from 'migrate';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import config from './load-config.js';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+
+const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
+const appRoot = path.dirname(__dirname);
+const migrationsDirectory = path.join(appRoot, "migrations");
 
 export default function run(direction = 'up') {
   console.log(
@@ -13,7 +19,7 @@ export default function run(direction = 'up') {
         stateStore: `${path.join(config.dataDir, '.migrate')}${
           config.mode === 'test' ? '-test' : ''
         }`,
-        migrationsDirectory: `${path.join(config.projectRoot, 'migrations')}`,
+        migrationsDirectory
       },
       (err, set) => {
         if (err) {