diff --git a/containers/synapse/Containerfile b/containers/synapse/Containerfile
index da94da1..3c7060a 100644
--- a/containers/synapse/Containerfile
+++ b/containers/synapse/Containerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 FROM matrixdotorg/synapse:v1.118.0
 RUN pip install boto3 humanize tqdm
-RUN curl -Lo /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/s3_storage_provider.py https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider/raw/v1.4.0/s3_storage_provider.py
+# there is probably a better way to figure out where the site packages are
+# this used to be hard coded to /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages but then synapse updated it's minor python version and it broke
+RUN curl -Lo $(python -c 'import sys; print([x for x in sys.path if "site-packages" in x][0])')/s3_storage_provider.py https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider/raw/v1.4.0/s3_storage_provider.py
 RUN curl -L https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider/raw/main/scripts/s3_media_upload | sed "s#/usr/bin/env python#/usr/local/bin/python#" > /usr/local/bin/s3_media_upload && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/s3_media_upload