diff --git a/mirrormanager2/app.py b/mirrormanager2/app.py
index 1536e2df5..442c42480 100644
--- a/mirrormanager2/app.py
+++ b/mirrormanager2/app.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 from flask_admin import Admin
 from flask_oidc import OpenIDConnect
 from sqlalchemy.orm import configure_mappers
-from whitenoise import WhiteNoise
 
 from mirrormanager2 import __version__, local_auth
 from mirrormanager2.admin import register_views as register_admin_views
@@ -133,8 +132,4 @@ def create_app(config=None):
 
     XMLRPC.connect(app, "/xmlrpc")
 
-    # More static files
-    app.wsgi_app = WhiteNoise(app.wsgi_app)
-    app.wsgi_app.add_files(os.path.join(app.config["MM_LOG_DIR"], "crawler"), prefix="crawler/")
-
     return app
diff --git a/mirrormanager2/templates/fedora/host.html b/mirrormanager2/templates/fedora/host.html
index da6b24724..4be8f8432 100644
--- a/mirrormanager2/templates/fedora/host.html
+++ b/mirrormanager2/templates/fedora/host.html
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ <h2>Host {{ host.name }}
 <p>
 {% if host.private %}Last Checked In: {{ host.last_checked_in or '-' }} <br />{% endif %}
 {% if not host.private %}Last Crawled: {% if host.last_crawled %} {{ host.last_crawled
-  }} <a href="{{url_for('base.index')}}crawler/{{host.id}}.log">[Log]</a> {% else %} - {% endif %} <br />
+  }} <a href="{{url_for('base.crawler_log', host_id=host.id)}}">[Log]</a> {% else %} - {% endif %} <br />
 Last Crawl Duration: {{ host.last_crawl_duration }} seconds
 {% if host.crawl_failures > 0 %}<br/>Number of consecutive crawl failures: {{ host.crawl_failures }} {% endif %}{% endif %}
 </p>
diff --git a/mirrormanager2/views.py b/mirrormanager2/views.py
index b7c3c1515..ef9b9603f 100644
--- a/mirrormanager2/views.py
+++ b/mirrormanager2/views.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import datetime
+import os
 import re
 
 import flask
@@ -1255,3 +1256,9 @@ def propagation(repo_id):
     return flask.render_template(
         "propagation.html", repos=repos, repo=repo, labels=labels, datasets=datasets
     )
+
+
+@views.route("/crawler/<int:host_id>.log")
+def crawler_log(host_id):
+    crawler_log_dir = os.path.join(flask.current_app.config["MM_LOG_DIR"], "crawler")
+    return flask.helpers.send_from_directory(crawler_log_dir, f"{host_id}.log", max_age=None)
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index e8783f431..9297121f6 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -2436,20 +2436,6 @@ MarkupSafe = ">=2.1.1"
 [package.extras]
 watchdog = ["watchdog (>=2.3)"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "whitenoise"
-version = "6.6.0"
-description = "Radically simplified static file serving for WSGI applications"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.8"
-files = [
-    {file = "whitenoise-6.6.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b1f9db9bf67dc183484d760b99f4080185633136a273a03f6436034a41064146"},
-    {file = "whitenoise-6.6.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:8998f7370973447fac1e8ef6e8ded2c5209a7b1f67c1012866dbcd09681c3251"},
-]
-
-[package.extras]
-brotli = ["Brotli"]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "wrapt"
 version = "1.16.0"
@@ -2723,4 +2709,4 @@ deploy = ["gunicorn", "psycopg2"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "5f2697d9979c7f4367a16827a42d0ace0aeb719d9c10d4c01228e288e14f97ff"
+content-hash = "bda59a16c34095861ea7537a32e32a33c35e1097620dce940e6375d41e26f649"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5dae94a3f..1a1268ae4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ click = "^8.1.7"
 geoip2 = "^4.7.0"
 gunicorn = {version = "^21.2.0", optional = true}
 psycopg2 = {version = "^2.9.9", optional = true}
-whitenoise = "^6.6.0"
 rich = "^13.7.0"
 mrtparse = "^2.2.0"
 requests = "^2.31.0"
diff --git a/utility/mirrormanager2.spec b/utility/mirrormanager2.spec
index 14976c1f1..f2b064714 100644
--- a/utility/mirrormanager2.spec
+++ b/utility/mirrormanager2.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-fedora-messaging
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-sqlalchemy-helpers
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-click
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-geoip2
-BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-whitenoise
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-rich
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-mrtparse
 BuildRequires:  python%{python_pkgversion}-requests