diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2015eb221fcc..8d9bcfba4528 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 stacks
 /deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/info.json
 
+# Server artifacts
+/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/server
+
 # to ignore the node_modeules folder
 node_modules
 # to ignore the package-lock.json file
@@ -36,3 +39,5 @@ app/client/.fleet/*
 # Observability related local storage
 utils/observability/tempo-data/*
 
+# Ignore the mongo data backup directory for Mongo to PG migrations
+mongo-data**
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-java.sh b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-java.sh
index b9255a9293ec..675c8e26511e 100755
--- a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-java.sh
+++ b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/run-java.sh
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ set -o pipefail
 set -o nounset
 set -o noglob
 
+mode=mongo
+if [[ "$APPSMITH_DB_URL" = postgresql://* ]]; then
+  mode=pg
+fi
+
+tlog "Running with $mode."
+cd "/opt/appsmith/server/$mode"
+
 declare -a extra_args
 proxy_configured=0
 
diff --git a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/templates/supervisord/application_process/backend.conf b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/templates/supervisord/application_process/backend.conf
index be1d8cd57e9c..a9f4ed00ecdd 100644
--- a/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/templates/supervisord/application_process/backend.conf
+++ b/deploy/docker/fs/opt/appsmith/templates/supervisord/application_process/backend.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [program:backend]
-directory=/opt/appsmith/backend
 command=/opt/appsmith/run-with-env.sh /opt/appsmith/run-java.sh
 priority=20
 autostart=true