diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index ccd9053ac7..0e38c83eaa 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ aliases:
      name: install production
      command: |
       sudo service rabbitmq-server restart
-      mispipe /tmp/production ts
+      sudo mispipe /tmp/production-install ts
 
   - &check_xenial_provision_error
     run:
diff --git a/tools/ci/production b/tools/ci/production
deleted file mode 100755
index d2d92f8fe2..0000000000
--- a/tools/ci/production
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-set -x
-
-sudo /tmp/production-install
diff --git a/tools/ci/production-build b/tools/ci/production-build
index 086d147686..1549c75ec9 100755
--- a/tools/ci/production-build
+++ b/tools/ci/production-build
@@ -30,6 +30,5 @@ fi
 
 mv /tmp/tmp.*/zulip-server-test.tar.gz /tmp/
 cp -a tools/ci/success-http-headers.txt /tmp/success-http-headers.txt
-cp -a tools/ci/production /tmp/production
 cp -a tools/ci/production-install /tmp/production-install
 cp -a tools/ci/production-extract-tarball /tmp/production-extract-tarball