diff --git a/conf/compose/element.docker-compose.yml b/conf/compose/element.docker-compose.yml
index 89c03bb..23932b6 100644
--- a/conf/compose/element.docker-compose.yml
+++ b/conf/compose/element.docker-compose.yml
@@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ services:
     configs:
       - source: element-json-config
         target: /app/config.json
-      - source: element-nginx-config
-        target: /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
 
 configs:
   synapse-homeserver-config:
@@ -82,7 +80,4 @@ configs:
   element-json-config:
     file: ../element/config.json
     external: false
-  element-nginx-config:
-    file: ../element/nginx.conf
-    external: false
 
diff --git a/conf/element/nginx.conf b/conf/element/nginx.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 5082420..0000000
--- a/conf/element/nginx.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-server {
-    listen       8001;
-    server_name  localhost;
-
-    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
-    index  index.html;
-
-    # Set no-cache for the version, config and index.html
-    # so that browsers always check for a new copy of Element Web.
-    # NB http://your-domain/ and http://your-domain/? are also covered by this
-
-    location = /index.html {
-        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
-    }
-    location = /version {
-        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
-    }
-    # covers config.json and config.hostname.json requests as it is prefix.
-    location /config {
-        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
-    }
-    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
-    #
-    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
-}
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 3463b18..2b278fd 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ matrix_config () {
     printf "rc_registration:\n  per_second: 0.1 \n  burst_count: 2\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
     printf "presence:\n  enabled: false\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
     printf "database:\n  name: psycopg2\n  txn_limit: 10000\n  args:\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
-    printf "    user: postgres\n    password: null\n    database: synapse\n    host: localhost\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
+    printf "    user: postgres\n    password: null\n    database: synapse\n    host: synapse-pg\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
     printf "    port: 5432\n    cp_min: 5\n    cp_max: 10\n" >> $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/synapse/homeserver.yaml
 
     sed -i "s/TEMPLATE/$DWEB_DOMAIN/" $DCOMMS_DIR/conf/element/config.json