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+# SurfSense Production Deployment Guide
+
+**Server**: ai.kapteinis.lv
+**Date**: November 17, 2025
+**Branch**: nightly
+**Environment**: Debian VPS with local Ollama LLMs
+
+---
+
+## 📋 Pre-Deployment Checklist
+
+✅ **Code Changes Committed:**
+- Minimal privacy-focused frontend UI
+- Email/password authentication only
+- Google Analytics removed
+- Anthropic Claude removed from examples
+- Social media: Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm only
+
+✅ **GitHub Status:**
+- All changes pushed to `nightly` branch
+- Repository: https://github.com/okapteinis/SurfSense
+
+✅ **Configuration Verified:**
+- Mistral NeMo 128K context window fix applied
+- TildeOpen 30B grammar checker configured
+- Gemini API fallback configured
+- No secrets committed to repository
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Deployment Steps
+
+### Option 1: Automated Deployment (Recommended)
+
+```bash
+# On your VPS (ai.kapteinis.lv)
+ssh your-user@ai.kapteinis.lv
+
+# Create deployment script
+cat > /opt/SurfSense/deploy.sh << 'EOF'
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+echo "🚀 SurfSense Deployment to ai.kapteinis.lv"
+echo "==========================================="
+
+# Backup current state
+BACKUP_DIR="/opt/SurfSense/backups/$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
+mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
+cp -r /opt/SurfSense/surfsense_web "$BACKUP_DIR/"
+echo "✅ Backup created: $BACKUP_DIR"
+
+# Pull latest code
+cd /opt/SurfSense
+git fetch origin
+git checkout nightly
+git pull origin nightly
+echo "✅ Code updated from GitHub"
+
+# Install and build frontend
+cd /opt/SurfSense/surfsense_web
+pnpm install
+pnpm build
+echo "✅ Frontend built"
+
+# Restart services
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-frontend
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-celery || true
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-celery-beat || true
+echo "✅ Services restarted"
+
+# Verify
+sleep 5
+echo ""
+echo "Service Status:"
+systemctl is-active surfsense && echo "  ✅ Backend: Running"
+systemctl is-active surfsense-frontend && echo "  ✅ Frontend: Running"
+systemctl is-active ollama && echo "  ✅ Ollama: Running"
+
+echo ""
+echo "🎉 Deployment complete!"
+echo "🔗 Visit: https://ai.kapteinis.lv"
+EOF
+
+chmod +x /opt/SurfSense/deploy.sh
+
+# Run deployment
+/opt/SurfSense/deploy.sh
+```
+
+### Option 2: Manual Deployment
+
+```bash
+# 1. SSH to server
+ssh your-user@ai.kapteinis.lv
+
+# 2. Navigate to SurfSense directory
+cd /opt/SurfSense
+
+# 3. Backup current installation
+mkdir -p backups/$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
+cp -r surfsense_web backups/$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)/
+
+# 4. Pull latest changes
+git fetch origin
+git checkout nightly
+git pull origin nightly
+
+# 5. Install frontend dependencies
+cd surfsense_web
+pnpm install
+
+# 6. Build frontend
+pnpm build
+
+# 7. Restart services
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-frontend
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-celery
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-celery-beat
+
+# 8. Verify services are running
+systemctl status surfsense
+systemctl status surfsense-frontend
+systemctl status ollama
+```
+
+---
+
+## ✅ Post-Deployment Verification
+
+### 1. Check Services Status
+
+```bash
+# All services should show "active (running)"
+sudo systemctl status surfsense
+sudo systemctl status surfsense-frontend
+sudo systemctl status ollama
+sudo systemctl status surfsense-celery
+```
+
+### 2. Verify UI Changes
+
+Visit https://ai.kapteinis.lv and verify:
+
+**Homepage Should Show:**
+- ✅ SurfSense logo and theme toggle only (no navigation links)
+- ✅ "Let's Start Surfing" heading
+- ✅ Tagline paragraph
+- ✅ Hero screenshot/demo
+- ✅ Footer with SurfSense name and social links
+
+**Homepage Should NOT Show:**
+- ❌ "Get Started" button
+- ❌ "Pricing" link
+- ❌ "Docs" link
+- ❌ Discord/GitHub icons
+- ❌ "Sign In" button in navbar
+- ❌ Feature cards or integrations sections
+
+**Login Page Should Show:**
+- ✅ Email and password fields only
+- ✅ "Sign In" button
+- ✅ Link to register page
+
+**Login Page Should NOT Show:**
+- ❌ "Continue with Google" button
+- ❌ Any OAuth options
+
+### 3. Test Authentication
+
+```bash
+# Test login endpoint
+curl -X POST https://ai.kapteinis.lv/api/v1/auth/login \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"email":"test@example.com","password":"testpass"}'
+```
+
+### 4. Test LLM Backend
+
+```bash
+# Check Ollama is running
+curl http://localhost:11434/api/tags
+
+# Should show mistral-nemo:128k and tildeopen models
+```
+
+### 5. Check Logs
+
+```bash
+# Backend logs
+journalctl -u surfsense -n 100 -f
+
+# Frontend logs
+journalctl -u surfsense-frontend -n 100 -f
+
+# Ollama logs
+journalctl -u ollama -n 100 -f
+```
+
+Look for:
+- ✅ No errors during startup
+- ✅ "Context window=131072" in logs (Mistral NeMo)
+- ✅ Successful model loading messages
+- ✅ No Google Analytics references
+
+---
+
+## 🔧 Troubleshooting
+
+### Frontend Build Fails
+
+```bash
+# Clear cache and rebuild
+cd /opt/SurfSense/surfsense_web
+rm -rf .next node_modules
+pnpm install
+pnpm build
+```
+
+### Services Won't Start
+
+```bash
+# Check for errors
+journalctl -u surfsense -n 50
+journalctl -u surfsense-frontend -n 50
+
+# Verify ports are available
+sudo lsof -i :8000  # Backend
+sudo lsof -i :3000  # Frontend
+sudo lsof -i :11434 # Ollama
+```
+
+### Ollama Models Missing
+
+```bash
+# List installed models
+ollama list
+
+# Re-pull if needed
+ollama pull mistral-nemo
+ollama create mistral-nemo:128k -f /path/to/mistral-nemo-128k.modelfile
+ollama pull tildeopen:30b-q5_k_m
+```
+
+### Google Analytics Still Showing
+
+```bash
+# Verify layout.tsx doesn't have GA
+grep -r "GoogleAnalytics\|google-analytics\|gtag" /opt/SurfSense/surfsense_web/app/
+
+# Should return nothing
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Performance Monitoring
+
+### After Deployment, Monitor:
+
+```bash
+# RAM usage (should be 20-25GB during inference)
+free -h
+
+# CPU usage
+htop
+
+# Disk space
+df -h
+
+# Response times
+curl -w "@-" -o /dev/null -s https://ai.kapteinis.lv << 'EOF'
+time_total: %{time_total}s
+EOF
+```
+
+### Expected Performance:
+
+- **English queries**: ~5 seconds
+- **Latvian queries**: ~23 seconds (with grammar check)
+- **RAM usage**: 13-15GB idle, 20-25GB during inference
+- **Disk usage**: ~28GB for Ollama models
+
+---
+
+## 🔄 Rollback Procedure
+
+If something goes wrong:
+
+```bash
+# Find backup
+ls -lt /opt/SurfSense/backups/
+
+# Restore from backup
+cd /opt/SurfSense
+mv surfsense_web surfsense_web.failed
+cp -r backups/YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS/surfsense_web .
+
+# Restart services
+sudo systemctl restart surfsense-frontend
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📝 Production Configuration
+
+### Environment Variables
+
+Location: `/opt/SurfSense/surfsense_backend/.env`
+
+**Required:**
+```bash
+GEMINI_API_KEY=your_key_here
+OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434
+SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
+DATABASE_URL=postgresql://...
+REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
+```
+
+**Not Required (Removed):**
+```bash
+# GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID  # OAuth disabled
+# GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET  # OAuth disabled
+# ANTHROPIC_API_KEY  # Not using Claude
+```
+
+### LLM Configuration
+
+Location: `/opt/SurfSense/surfsense_backend/app/config/global_llm_config.yaml`
+
+**Three-tier architecture:**
+1. Mistral NeMo 12B (primary)
+2. TildeOpen 30B (Latvian grammar)
+3. Gemini 2.0 Flash (fallback)
+
+See `global_llm_config.yaml.template` for structure.
+
+---
+
+## 🎯 Success Criteria
+
+Deployment is successful when:
+
+- ✅ Homepage shows minimal UI (logo + tagline only)
+- ✅ No navigation links visible (Pricing, Docs removed)
+- ✅ Login page shows email/password form only
+- ✅ No Google OAuth button
+- ✅ Footer shows only Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bookwyrm links
+- ✅ Services all running (backend, frontend, Ollama)
+- ✅ English queries respond in ~5 seconds
+- ✅ Latvian queries respond in ~23 seconds
+- ✅ No errors in logs
+- ✅ RAM usage normal (13-25GB)
+
+---
+
+## 📞 Support
+
+**Issues:** https://github.com/okapteinis/SurfSense/issues
+**Email:** ojars@kapteinis.lv
+**Deployment Date:** November 17, 2025
+**Version:** nightly branch (commit 209cd24)
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Related Documentation
+
+- `INSTALLATION_LOCAL_LLM.md` - Complete Ollama setup guide
+- `MIGRATION_LOCAL_LLM.md` - Architecture and migration details
+- `PR_DESCRIPTION.md` - Full PR documentation
+- `claude.md` - Security audit report
+
+---
+
+**Deployment Complete!** Your minimal, privacy-focused SurfSense instance with local European AI is ready. 🎉
diff --git a/surfsense_web/app/(home)/register/page.tsx b/surfsense_web/app/(home)/register/page.tsx
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@@ -29,12 +29,9 @@ export default function RegisterPage() {
 	const router = useRouter();
 	const [{ mutateAsync: register, isPending: isRegistering }] = useAtom(registerMutationAtom);
 
-	// Check authentication type and redirect if not LOCAL
+	// Email/password authentication is enforced - registration is always available
 	useEffect(() => {
-		const authType = process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_FASTAPI_BACKEND_AUTH_TYPE || "GOOGLE";
-		if (authType !== "LOCAL") {
-			router.push("/login");
-		}
+		// Email authentication is the only method - no redirect needed
 	}, [router]);
 
 	const handleSubmit = async (e: React.FormEvent) => {