diff --git a/README.MD b/README.MD
index 87edb20..6c846ad 100644
--- a/README.MD
+++ b/README.MD
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Improvements in this fork:
 - Choose protection modes "none", "pow" or "pow+captcha" per-domain or per-domain+path, with paths taking priority.
 - Whitelist IPs/subnets.
 - Maintenance mode page for selected domains.
-- Include dataplaneapi, to sync map files to disk if edited during runtime.
 - In POW only mode, provide instructions and an encoded script to find the solution.
 - Many bugfixes.
 
@@ -32,10 +31,11 @@ Add some env vars to docker-compose file:
 - RECAPTCHA_SECRET - your recaptcha secret key
 - CAPTCHA_COOKIE_SECRET - random string, a salt for captcha cookies
 - POW_COOKIE_SECRET - different random string, a salt for pow cookies
+- HMAC_COOKIE_SECRET - different random string, a salt for pow cookies
 - RAY_ID - string to identify the HAProxy node by
 - BUCKET_DURATION - how long between bucket changes, invalidating cookies
-- BACKEND_NAME - name of backend to build from hosts.map
-- SERVER_PREFIX - prefix of server names used in server-template
+- BACKEND_NAME - Optional, name of backend to build from hosts.map
+- SERVER_PREFIX - Optional, prefix of server names used in server-template
 
 Add a domain name + backend IP to `haproxy/hosts.map` like:
 ```plain
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ Before installing the tool, ensure that HAProxy is built with Lua support and ve
 - Copy [haproxy.cfg](haproxy/haproxy.cfg) to /etc/haproxy
   - Edit the `lua-load` directive to be the absolute path to [register.lua](src/scripts/register.lua)
   - Edit the paths of challenge.js and worker.js in the `http-request return` directive to the absolut path to the respective files in the haproxy/js folder
-- Copy [dataplaneapi.hcl](haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl) to /etc/haproxy
 - Copy or link [scripts](src/scripts) to /etc/haproxy/scripts
 - Copy or link [libs](src/libs) to /etc/haproxy/libs (or a path where Lua looks for modules).
 - Copy the map files from the haproxy folder to /etc/haproxy
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 84feedd..b517855 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ services:
       - ./haproxy/blocked.map:/etc/haproxy/blocked.map
       - ./haproxy/whitelist.map:/etc/haproxy/whitelist.map
       - ./haproxy/maintenance.map:/etc/haproxy/maintenance.map
-      - ./haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl:/etc/haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl
       - ./haproxy/trace.txt:/etc/haproxy/trace.txt
       - ./src/scripts/:/etc/haproxy/scripts/
       - ./src/libs/:/etc/haproxy/libs/
diff --git a/haproxy/Dockerfile b/haproxy/Dockerfile
index 945995c..cec691b 100644
--- a/haproxy/Dockerfile
+++ b/haproxy/Dockerfile
@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@ RUN set -eux; \
 	; \
 	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
 	\
-	wget -O dataplaneapi_2.4.4_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz https://github.com/haproxytech/dataplaneapi/releases/download/v2.4.4/dataplaneapi_2.4.4_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz; \
-	tar -zxvf dataplaneapi_2.4.4_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz; \
-	chmod +x build/dataplaneapi; \
-	cp build/dataplaneapi /usr/local/bin/; \
-	\
 	wget -O haproxy.tar.gz "$HAPROXY_URL"; \
 #	echo "$HAPROXY_SHA256 *haproxy.tar.gz" | sha256sum -c; \
 	mkdir -p /usr/src/haproxy; \
diff --git a/haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl b/haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl
deleted file mode 100644
index 97a9094..0000000
--- a/haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-config_version = 2
-
-name = "meet_bedbug"
-
-mode = "single"
-
-dataplaneapi {
-  user "admin" {
-    insecure = true
-    password = "adminpwd"
-  }
-
-  transaction {
-    transaction_dir = "/tmp/haproxy"
-  }
-
-  advertised {}
-}
-
-haproxy {
-  config_file = "/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg"
-  haproxy_bin = "/usr/local/sbin/haproxy"
-
-  reload {
-    reload_delay = 5
-    reload_cmd   = "service haproxy reload"
-    restart_cmd  = "service haproxy restart"
-  }
-}
diff --git a/haproxy/haproxy.cfg b/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
index 5135127..22e77cc 100644
--- a/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
+++ b/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
@@ -13,10 +13,6 @@ defaults
 	timeout client 50000ms
 	timeout server 50000ms
 
-program api
-    command dataplaneapi -f /etc/haproxy/dataplaneapi.hcl --update-map-files
-    no option start-on-reload
-
 frontend http-in
 	bind *:80
 
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