diff --git a/Dockers/puppeteer-api/Dockerfile b/Dockers/puppeteer-api/Dockerfile
index 41491ae..cdc9047 100644
--- a/Dockers/puppeteer-api/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockers/puppeteer-api/Dockerfile
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ ENV API_KEY=""
 # Create a non-root user and switch to it
 RUN useradd -m puppeteer && chown -R puppeteer:puppeteer /app
 # Create the database directory and set permissions
-RUN mkdir -p /db && chown -R puppeteer:puppeteer /db
+RUN mkdir -p /db && chown -R puppeteer:puppeteer /db && chmod 777 /db
 
 USER puppeteer
 
diff --git a/Dockers/puppeteer-api/main.py b/Dockers/puppeteer-api/main.py
index 7f5e20c..d61bf07 100644
--- a/Dockers/puppeteer-api/main.py
+++ b/Dockers/puppeteer-api/main.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ CUSTOM_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.3
 
 # Initialize SQLite database
 def init_db():
+    global DB_PATH
     db_path = '/db/cache.db'
     db_dir = os.path.dirname(db_path)
 
@@ -51,6 +52,8 @@ def init_db():
         conn.commit()
         conn.close()
         print(f"Database initialized at {db_path}")
+        # Update the global DB_PATH
+        DB_PATH = db_path
     except sqlite3.OperationalError as e:
         print(f"Error initializing database: {e}")
         # Fallback to using a local database file if the mounted volume has permission issues
@@ -70,10 +73,8 @@ def init_db():
         conn.commit()
         conn.close()
         print(f"Local database initialized at {db_path}")
-
-    # Update the global DB_PATH
-    global DB_PATH
-    DB_PATH = db_path
+        # Update the global DB_PATH
+        DB_PATH = db_path
 
 # Define the database path
 DB_PATH = '/db/cache.db'