diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 714667bc..bd947a73 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -24,10 +24,13 @@ build:
     - curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python-poetry/poetry/master/get-poetry.py | python
 
   script:
+    # Install server
     - $HOME/.poetry/bin/poetry install
+    # Run static build script
     - $HOME/.poetry/bin/poetry run build_static
-    - $HOME/.poetry/bin/poetry build
-    - $HOME/.poetry/bin/poetry export --without-hashes -f requirements.txt > dist/requirements.txt
+    # Build distribution archive
+    - mkdir -p dist
+    - tar -c --exclude-vcs --exclude-from .tarignore -vzf dist/openflexure-microscope-server-${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}.tar.gz .
 
   artifacts:
     name: "dist"
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ deploy:
     - 'which rsync || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install rsync -y )'
     
     # Upload the builds folder to openflexure-microscope builds 
-    - rsync -hrvz -e ssh dist/ ci-user@openflexure.bath.ac.uk:/var/www/build/openflexure-microscope-server/${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME} --delete
+    - rsync -hrvz -e ssh dist/ ci-user@openflexure.bath.ac.uk:/var/www/build/openflexure-microscope-server
     
     # Run update-latest.py on the build server
     - ssh -t ci-user@openflexure.bath.ac.uk "/var/www/build/update-latest.py"