diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index fb7a1e19a..4b166f490 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ services:
 #      - LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_bedrock_claude_3_5_sonnet=${LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_bedrock_claude_3_5_sonnet-}
 #     - LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_fireworks_qwen_72b=${LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_fireworks_qwen_72b-}
       - LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_ollama_llama3=${LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_ollama_llama3-}
-    # env_file:
-    #   - ./backend/.env
     container_name: backend
     extra_hosts:
       - host.docker.internal:host-gateway
diff --git a/example.env b/example.env
deleted file mode 100644
index 71c9dd36b..000000000
--- a/example.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Optional Backend
-EMBEDDING_MODEL="all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
-IS_EMBEDDING="true"
-KNN_MIN_SCORE="0.94"
-# Enable Gemini (default is False) | Can be False or True
-GEMINI_ENABLED=False
-# LLM_MODEL_CONFIG_ollama_llama3="llama3,http://host.docker.internal:11434"
-
-# Enable Google Cloud logs (default is False) | Can be False or True
-GCP_LOG_METRICS_ENABLED=False
-NUMBER_OF_CHUNKS_TO_COMBINE=6
-UPDATE_GRAPH_CHUNKS_PROCESSED=20
-NEO4J_URI="neo4j://database:7687"
-NEO4J_USERNAME="neo4j"
-NEO4J_PASSWORD="password"
-LANGCHAIN_API_KEY=""
-LANGCHAIN_PROJECT=""
-LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2="true"
-LANGCHAIN_ENDPOINT="https://api.smith.langchain.com"
-GCS_FILE_CACHE=False
-ENTITY_EMBEDDING=True
-
-# Optional Frontend
-VITE_BACKEND_API_URL="http://localhost:8000"
-VITE_BLOOM_URL="https://workspace-preview.neo4j.io/workspace/explore?connectURL={CONNECT_URL}&search=Show+me+a+graph&featureGenAISuggestions=true&featureGenAISuggestionsInternal=true"
-VITE_REACT_APP_SOURCES="local,youtube,wiki,s3,web"
-VITE_ENV="DEV"
-VITE_TIME_PER_PAGE=50
-VITE_CHUNK_SIZE=5242880
-VITE_CHUNK_OVERLAP=20
-VITE_TOKENS_PER_CHUNK=100
-VITE_CHUNK_TO_COMBINE=1
-VITE_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=""
-VITE_CHAT_MODES=""
-VITE_BATCH_SIZE=2
-VITE_LLM_MODELS_PROD="openai_gpt_4o,openai_gpt_4o_mini,diffbot,gemini_1.5_flash"