diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 169c97f..55e97aa 100755
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.1.1
+current_version = 0.1.2
 commit = False
 message = service version: {current_version} → {new_version}
 tag = False
diff --git a/.osparc/osparc-meta-parallelrunner/metadata.yml b/.osparc/osparc-meta-parallelrunner/metadata.yml
index 44f2347..56030cb 100755
--- a/.osparc/osparc-meta-parallelrunner/metadata.yml
+++ b/.osparc/osparc-meta-parallelrunner/metadata.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name: Parallel Runner
 description: "ParallelRunnerService"
 key: simcore/services/dynamic/osparc-meta-parallelrunner
-version: 0.1.1
+version: 0.1.2
 integration-version: 2.0.0
 type: dynamic
 authors:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 0fc5911..0a56e5f 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ SHELL = /bin/sh
 MAKEFLAGS += -j2
 
 export DOCKER_IMAGE_NAME ?= osparc-meta-parallelrunner
-export DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG ?= 0.1.1
+export DOCKER_IMAGE_TAG ?= 0.1.2
 
 export MASTER_AWS_REGISTRY ?= registry.osparc-master-zmt.click
 export MASTER_REGISTRY ?= registry.osparc-master.speag.com
diff --git a/docker-compose-local.yml b/docker-compose-local.yml
index 8418fa0..6e5610d 100755
--- a/docker-compose-local.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-local.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 version: '3.7'
 services:
   osparc-meta-parallelrunner:
-    image: simcore/services/dynamic/osparc-meta-parallelrunner:0.1.1
+    image: simcore/services/dynamic/osparc-meta-parallelrunner:0.1.2
     ports:
       - "8888:8888"
     environment:
diff --git a/docker_scripts/main.py b/docker_scripts/main.py
index 78e0604..d3e1a86 100755
--- a/docker_scripts/main.py
+++ b/docker_scripts/main.py
@@ -26,16 +26,6 @@ def main():
     settings = MainSettings()
     config_path = settings.input_path / INPUT_CONF_KEY / "parallelrunner.json"
 
-    waiter = 0
-    while not config_path.exists():
-        if waiter % 10 == 0:
-            logger.info("Waiting for parallelrunner.json to exist ...")
-        time.sleep(settings.file_polling_interval)
-        waiter += 1
-
-    settings = settings.parse_file(config_path)
-    logging.info(f"Received the following settings: {settings}")
-
     http_dir_path = pl.Path(__file__).parent / "http"
 
     class HTTPHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
@@ -44,18 +34,32 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
                 *args, **kwargs, directory=http_dir_path.resolve()
             )
 
-    maprunner = parallelrunner.ParallelRunner(**settings.dict())
-
     try:
         logger.info(
             f"Starting http server at port {HTTP_PORT} and serving path {http_dir_path}"
         )
         with socketserver.TCPServer(("", HTTP_PORT), HTTPHandler) as httpd:
+            # First start the empty web server
             httpd_thread = threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever)
             httpd_thread.start()
+
+            # Now start the real parallel runner
+            waiter = 0
+            while not config_path.exists():
+                if waiter % 10 == 0:
+                    logger.info("Waiting for parallelrunner.json to exist ...")
+                time.sleep(settings.file_polling_interval)
+                waiter += 1
+
+            settings = settings.parse_file(config_path)
+            logging.info(f"Received the following settings: {settings}")
+
+            maprunner = parallelrunner.ParallelRunner(**settings.dict())
+
             maprunner.setup()
             maprunner.start()
             maprunner.teardown()
+
             httpd.shutdown()
     except Exception as err:  # pylint: disable=broad-except
         logger.error(f"{err} . Stopping %s", exc_info=True)