diff --git a/docker-compose.production.yml b/docker-compose.production.yml
index 86a2bf06193..f334328c0c5 100644
--- a/docker-compose.production.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.production.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,5 @@ services:
       - GUNICORN_OPTS= --workers 50 --timeout 300  # 5 minutes before reload
       - OL_CONFIG=/olsystem/etc/openlibrary.yml
       - PYENV_VERSION=3.8.6
-      - USE_NGINX=true
     volumes:
       - ../olsystem:/olsystem
diff --git a/scripts/setup_web1.sh b/scripts/setup_web1.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..99adc6a8379
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/setup_web1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# This script is used to provision an ol-webX node _before_ docker gets on it.
+
+# CAUTION: To git clone olsystem, environment variables must be set...
+# Set $GITHUB_USERNAME or $USER will be used.
+# Set $GITHUB_TOKEN or this script will halt.
+if [[ -z ${GITHUB_TOKEN} ]]; then
+    echo "FATAL: Can not git clone olsystem" ;
+    exit 1 ;
+fi
+
+# apt list --installed
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install -y docker.io docker-compose
+docker --version        # 19.03.8
+docker-compose version  #  1.25.0
+sudo systemctl start docker
+sudo systemctl enable docker
+
+sudo groupadd --system openlibrary
+sudo useradd --no-log-init --system --gid openlibrary --create-home openlibrary
+
+cd /opt
+ls -Fla  # nothing
+
+sudo git clone https://${GITHUB_USERNAME:-$USER}:${GITHUB_TOKEN}@github.com/internetarchive/olsystem
+
+OL_DOMAIN=${OL_DOMAIN:-internetarchive}
+sudo git clone https://github.com/$OL_DOMAIN/openlibrary
+ls -Fla  # containerd, olsystem, openlibrary owned by openlibrary
+
+cd /opt/openlibrary
+OL_BRANCH=${OL_BRANCH:-master}
+sudo git checkout $OL_BRANCH
+sudo make git
+cd /opt/openlibrary/vendor/infogami && sudo git pull origin master
+
+cd /opt/openlibrary
+sudo docker-compose down
+sleep 2
+export DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=500
+export COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=500
+# NOTE: `cd /opt/openlibrary` and the remaining lines must be repeated manually
+sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.infogami-local.yml -f docker-compose.production.yml up --no-deps -d web
+sudo docker-compose logs --tail=100 -f web