diff --git a/.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh b/.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh
index 3e06256a..5bfc6b48 100644
--- a/.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ if [ -d /var/www/html/var/db ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
-# Start PHP-FPM
-service php8.1-fpm start
+# Start PHP-FPM (the PHP_VERSION is replaced by the configured version in the Dockerfile)
+service phpPHP_VERSION-fpm start
 
 # first arg is `-f` or `--some-option` (taken from https://github.com/docker-library/php/blob/master/8.2/bullseye/apache/docker-php-entrypoint)
 if [ "${1#-}" != "$1" ]; then
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9e0bf8c8..cd01fded 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ ENV DATABASE_URL="sqlite:///%kernel.project_dir%/uploads/app.db"
 
 USER root
 
+# Replace the php version placeholder in the entry point, with our php version
+RUN sed -i "s/PHP_VERSION/${PHP_VERSION}/g" ./.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh
+
 # Copy entrypoint and apache2-foreground to /usr/local/bin and make it executable
 RUN install ./.docker/partdb-entrypoint.sh /usr/local/bin && \
     install ./.docker/apache2-foreground /usr/local/bin