diff --git a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts
index 4ca4778d..d3809ef9 100644
--- a/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts
+++ b/SBOLCanvasFrontend/src/environments/environment.prod.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 export const environment = {
     production: true,
-    backendURL: 'http://localhost:8080/api',
+    backendURL: '/api',
     baseURI: "https://sbolcanvas.org"
 };