diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 60048763..908457cd 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ services:
   # Use `docker compose up backend-dev --build --attach-dependencies` to start a database and work and the backend.
   backend-dev:
     image: sverrirab/sleep
-    depends_on: [db, adminer, redis, redis-insights, webdb, maildev]
+    depends_on: [db, adminer, redis, redis-insights]
 
   # Use `docker compose up frontend-dev --build --attach-dependencies` to start all services needed to work on the frontend.
   frontend-dev:
diff --git a/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh b/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
index f81362dd..7366cde6 100755
--- a/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
+++ b/scripts/backend-development/run-local.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ export DEBUG_USE_SEED_DATA=True
 export DEBUG_SKIP_TOXICITY_CALCULATION=True
 export DEBUG_ALLOW_SELF_LABELING=True
 export DEBUG_SKIP_EMBEDDING_COMPUTATION=True
-export BACKEND_CORS_ORIGINS='["http://localhost:3000"]'
 
 uvicorn main:app --reload --port 8080 --host 0.0.0.0
 
diff --git a/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts b/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
index af2cbd59..7a5ddbe4 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
+++ b/website/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].ts
@@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ export const authOptions: AuthOptions = {
       }
     },
   },
+  /*
+   * We maybe need this, we maybe don't.  Checking in this uncommented until
+   * it's confirmed we can drop this.
   cookies: {
     sessionToken: {
       name: `next-auth.session-token`,
@@ -159,6 +162,7 @@ export const authOptions: AuthOptions = {
       },
     },
   },
+  */
   session: {
     strategy: "jwt",
   },
diff --git a/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx b/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
index 2739821b..8b9e3cae 100644
--- a/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
+++ b/website/src/pages/dashboard.tsx
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ import useSWR from "swr";
 import useSWRImmutable from "swr/immutable";
 
 const Dashboard = () => {
-  useSWR("http://localhost:8080/api/v1/auth/check", get);
+  // Adding a demonstrative call to the backend that includes the web's JWT.
+  useSWR(`${process.env.BACKEND_URL}/api/v1/auth/check`, get);
 
   const { data } = useSWRImmutable<AvailableTasks>("/api/available_tasks", get);