diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index ecee452933..ea4e075719 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ boilerplate = { version = "1.0.0", features = ["axum"] }
 brotli = "7.0.0"
 chrono = { version = "0.4.19", features = ["serde"] }
 ciborium = "0.2.1"
-clap = { version = "4.4.2", features = ["derive"] }
+clap = { version = "4.4.2", features = ["derive", "env"] }
 colored = "2.0.4"
 ctrlc = { version = "3.2.1", features = ["termination"] }
 dirs = "5.0.0"
diff --git a/deploy/ord.service b/deploy/ord.service
index a9812d34f9..2ebda3882d 100644
--- a/deploy/ord.service
+++ b/deploy/ord.service
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ord \
   --acme-contact mailto:casey@rodarmor.com \
   --csp-origin https://${CSP_ORIGIN} \
   --http \
-  --https \
-  --disable-json-api
+  --https
 Group=ord
 LimitNOFILE=65536
 MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
diff --git a/deploy/setup b/deploy/setup
index 206c4249ce..59f9f1d586 100755
--- a/deploy/setup
+++ b/deploy/setup
@@ -73,9 +73,17 @@ mkdir -p \
   /etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service.d \
   /etc/systemd/system/ord.service.d
 
-printf "[Service]\nEnvironment=CHAIN=%s\nEnvironment=CSP_ORIGIN=%s\n" $CHAIN $CSP_ORIGIN \
-  | tee /etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service.d/override.conf \
-  > /etc/systemd/system/ord.service.d/override.conf
+OVERRIDE=/etc/systemd/system/ord.service.d/override.conf
+
+echo '[Service]' > $OVERRIDE
+echo "Environment=CHAIN=$CHAIN" >> $OVERRIDE
+echo "Environment=CSP_ORIGIN=$CSP_ORIGIN" >> $OVERRIDE
+
+if [[ $CHAIN == main ]]; then
+  echo Environment=ORD_SERVER_DISABLE_JSON_API=true >> $OVERRIDE
+fi
+
+cp $OVERRIDE /etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service.d/override.conf
 
 sed -i -E 's/#?PasswordAuthentication yes/PasswordAuthentication no/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 sshd -t
@@ -89,7 +97,7 @@ fi
 
 bitcoind --version
 
-chown bitcoin:bitcoin /var/lib/bitcoind/settings.json
+rm -f /var/lib/bitcoind/settings.json
 
 if [[ ! -e ~/.cargo/env ]]; then
   curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- -y
diff --git a/src/subcommand/server.rs b/src/subcommand/server.rs
index 547060ea0f..c715d2a932 100644
--- a/src/subcommand/server.rs
+++ b/src/subcommand/server.rs
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ pub struct Server {
     help = "Decompress encoded content. Currently only supports brotli. Be careful using this on production instances. A decompressed inscription may be arbitrarily large, making decompression a DoS vector."
   )]
   pub(crate) decompress: bool,
-  #[arg(long, help = "Disable JSON API.")]
+  #[arg(long, env = "ORD_SERVER_DISABLE_JSON_API", help = "Disable JSON API.")]
   pub(crate) disable_json_api: bool,
   #[arg(
     long,