diff --git a/invokeai/app/cli_app.py b/invokeai/app/cli_app.py
index 5d8673a958..3db7c3eb9c 100644
--- a/invokeai/app/cli_app.py
+++ b/invokeai/app/cli_app.py
@@ -13,14 +13,20 @@ from typing import (
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ValidationError
 from pydantic.fields import Field
+
+# This should come early so that the logger can pick up its configuration options
+from .services.config import InvokeAIAppConfig
+from invokeai.backend.util.logging import InvokeAILogger
+config = InvokeAIAppConfig.get_config()
+config.parse_args()
+logger = InvokeAILogger().getLogger(config=config)
+
 from invokeai.app.services.image_record_storage import SqliteImageRecordStorage
 from invokeai.app.services.images import ImageService
 from invokeai.app.services.metadata import CoreMetadataService
 from invokeai.app.services.resource_name import SimpleNameService
 from invokeai.app.services.urls import LocalUrlService
 
-
-import invokeai.backend.util.logging as logger
 from .services.default_graphs import create_system_graphs
 from .services.latent_storage import DiskLatentsStorage, ForwardCacheLatentsStorage
 
@@ -38,7 +44,7 @@ from .services.invocation_services import InvocationServices
 from .services.invoker import Invoker
 from .services.processor import DefaultInvocationProcessor
 from .services.sqlite import SqliteItemStorage
-from .services.config import InvokeAIAppConfig
+
 
 class CliCommand(BaseModel):
     command: Union[BaseCommand.get_commands() + BaseInvocation.get_invocations()] = Field(discriminator="type")  # type: ignore
@@ -47,7 +53,6 @@ class CliCommand(BaseModel):
 class InvalidArgs(Exception):
     pass
 
-
 def add_invocation_args(command_parser):
     # Add linking capability
     command_parser.add_argument(
@@ -191,15 +196,8 @@ def invoke_all(context: CliContext):
         
         raise SessionError()
 
-
-logger = logger.InvokeAILogger.getLogger()
-
-
 def invoke_cli():
-    # this gets the basic configuration
-    config = InvokeAIAppConfig.get_config()
-    config.parse_args()
-
+    
     # get the optional list of invocations to execute on the command line
     parser = config.get_parser()
     parser.add_argument('commands',nargs='*')
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py b/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
index 8e80c0b5c4..5ef1d33302 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/model_management/model_manager.py
@@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ class ModelManager(object):
 
         self.logger.info(f"Probing {thing} for import")
 
-        if thing.startswith(("http:", "https:", "ftp:")):
+        if str(thing).startswith(("http:", "https:", "ftp:")):
             self.logger.info(f"{thing} appears to be a URL")
             model_path = self._resolve_path(
                 thing, "models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1"
diff --git a/invokeai/backend/util/logging.py b/invokeai/backend/util/logging.py
index 16efd56c03..0bb62bc1c2 100644
--- a/invokeai/backend/util/logging.py
+++ b/invokeai/backend/util/logging.py
@@ -181,9 +181,11 @@ class InvokeAILogger(object):
     loggers = dict()
 
     @classmethod
-    def getLogger(cls, name: str = 'InvokeAI') -> logging.Logger:
-        config = get_invokeai_config()
-        
+    def getLogger(cls, name: str = 'InvokeAI', config: InvokeAIAppConfig=None) -> logging.Logger:
+        if not config:
+            config = InvokeAIAppConfig()
+            config.parse_args()
+            
         if name not in cls.loggers:
             logger = logging.getLogger(name)
             logger.setLevel(config.log_level.upper()) # yes, strings work here
@@ -195,15 +197,16 @@ class InvokeAILogger(object):
     @classmethod
     def getLoggers(cls, config: InvokeAIAppConfig) -> list[logging.Handler]:
         handler_strs = config.log_handlers
-        print(f'handler_strs={handler_strs}')
         handlers = list()
         for handler in handler_strs:
             handler_name,*args = handler.split('=',2)
             args = args[0] if len(args) > 0 else None
 
-            # console is the only handler that gets a custom formatter
+            # console and file get the fancy formatter.
+            # syslog gets a simple one
+            # http gets no custom formatter
+            formatter = LOG_FORMATTERS[config.log_format]
             if handler_name=='console':
-                formatter = LOG_FORMATTERS[config.log_format]
                 ch = logging.StreamHandler()
                 ch.setFormatter(formatter())
                 handlers.append(ch)
@@ -214,7 +217,9 @@ class InvokeAILogger(object):
                 handlers.append(ch)
                 
             elif handler_name=='file':
-                handlers.append(cls._parse_file_args(args))
+                ch = cls._parse_file_args(args)
+                ch.setFormatter(formatter())
+                handlers.append(ch)
                 
             elif handler_name=='http':
                 handlers.append(cls._parse_http_args(args))