diff --git a/configure.sh b/configure.sh
index 804efb9f40a8b27d2224d7c7980ce4fffe9b0f6b..c4027e38a5e625e1c6b507020131d98fa9e403fe 100755
--- a/configure.sh
+++ b/configure.sh
@@ -66,7 +66,6 @@
     
     if [[ "$ENABLE_HTTP_ACCESS" = true ]] ; then
         echo "Installing and enabling http_access"
-        pip install http-access==0.0.1
         echo "INSTALLED_APPS += ('http_access', )" >> pvs_instance/settings.py
         echo "urlpatterns.append(re_path(r'^http/', include('http_access.urls')))" >> pvs_instance/urls.py
     fi
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c71da42e757c43ff7030c19b814365e5c20d9991..1c1e2a555e8300402f06aa3c2b5c5e46509761bd 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ jsonschema<5.0
 boto3<2.0
 django-cors-headers<4.0
 pystac<2.0
+http-access==0.0.1