diff --git a/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml b/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
index db334f161f3..a9ee5007400 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose-ci.yml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ services:
       # Tell Statistics to commit all views immediately instead of waiting on Solr's autocommit.
       # This allows us to generate statistics in e2e tests so that statistics pages can be tested thoroughly.
       solr__D__statistics__P__autoCommit: 'false'
+      LOGGING_CONFIG: /dspace/config/log4j2-container.xml
     image: "${DOCKER_OWNER:-dspace}/dspace:${DSPACE_VER:-dspace-7_x-test}"
     depends_on:
     - dspacedb
@@ -60,15 +61,19 @@ services:
   # NOTE: This is customized to use our loadsql image, so that we are using a database with existing test data
   dspacedb:
     container_name: dspacedb
+    image: "${DOCKER_OWNER:-dspace}/dspace-postgres-pgcrypto:${DSPACE_VER:-dspace-7_x-loadsql}"
     environment:
       # This LOADSQL should be kept in sync with the LOADSQL in
       # https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/main/dspace/src/main/docker-compose/db.entities.yml
       # This SQL is available from https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/AIP-Files/releases/tag/demo-entities-data
       LOADSQL: https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/AIP-Files/releases/download/demo-entities-data/dspace7-entities-data.sql
       PGDATA: /pgdata
-    image: dspace/dspace-postgres-pgcrypto:loadsql
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: dspace
     networks:
       - dspacenet
+    ports:
+    - published: 5432
+      target: 5432
     stdin_open: true
     tty: true
     volumes:
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose-rest.yml b/docker/docker-compose-rest.yml
index c9207713a9b..0650c39dc62 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose-rest.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose-rest.yml
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ services:
       # __D__ => "-" (e.g. google__D__metadata => google-metadata)
       # dspace.dir, dspace.server.url, dspace.ui.url and dspace.name
       dspace__P__dir: /dspace
-      dspace__P__server__P__url: http://localhost:8080/server
-      dspace__P__ui__P__url: http://localhost:4000
+      # Uncomment to set a non-default value for dspace.server.url or dspace.ui.url
+      # dspace__P__server__P__url: http://localhost:8080/server
+      # dspace__P__ui__P__url: http://localhost:4000
       dspace__P__name: 'DSpace Started with Docker Compose'
       # db.url: Ensure we are using the 'dspacedb' image for our database
       db__P__url: 'jdbc:postgresql://dspacedb:5432/dspace'
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ services:
       # proxies.trusted.ipranges: This setting is required for a REST API running in Docker to trust requests 
       # from the host machine. This IP range MUST correspond to the 'dspacenet' subnet defined above.
       proxies__P__trusted__P__ipranges: '172.23.0'
+      LOGGING_CONFIG: /dspace/config/log4j2-container.xml
     image: "${DOCKER_OWNER:-dspace}/dspace:${DSPACE_VER:-dspace-7_x-test}"
     depends_on:
     - dspacedb
@@ -65,11 +67,11 @@ services:
   # DSpace database container    
   dspacedb:
     container_name: dspacedb
+    # Uses a custom Postgres image with pgcrypto installed
+    image: "${DOCKER_OWNER:-dspace}/dspace-postgres-pgcrypto:${DSPACE_VER:-dspace-7_x}"
     environment:
       PGDATA: /pgdata
       POSTGRES_PASSWORD: dspace
-    # Uses a custom Postgres image with pgcrypto installed
-    image: "${DOCKER_OWNER:-dspace}/dspace-postgres-pgcrypto:${DSPACE_VER:-dspace-7_x}"
     networks:
       - dspacenet
     ports: