diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
index 458dc28..91c9b6e 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/deploy.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
               working-directory: /home/adamf/deploy/web_server
               run: |
                   git config --global --add safe.directory /home/adamf/deploy/web_server
-                  git pull http://gitea:3000/adamf/web_server.git main
+                  git pull ssh://git@gitea:2222/adamf/web_server.git main
 
             - name: Run docker compose up
               working-directory: /home/adamf/deploy/web_server
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d3bf068..6b8a55b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ backend/token/
 gitea/config/app.ini
 gitea/data/*
 
+# Gitea runner
+gitea-runner/.runner
+gitea-runner/act_runner
+gitea-runner/nohup.out
+
 # Rust build artifacts
 **/target/
 
diff --git a/gitea-runner/.runner b/gitea-runner/.runner
deleted file mode 100644
index 137deaf..0000000
--- a/gitea-runner/.runner
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "WARNING": "This file is automatically generated by act-runner. Do not edit it manually unless you know what you are doing. Removing this file will cause act runner to re-register as a new runner.",
-  "id": 2,
-  "uuid": "619db79e-39a2-4a92-9840-d6a87cde7d1f",
-  "name": "stppi",
-  "token": "7361451ecbbe1719fb071e93a334b6f6a531ac45",
-  "address": "http://localhost:3000/",
-  "labels": [
-    "self-hosted:host",
-    "ubuntu-latest:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-latest",
-    "ubuntu-24.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-24.04",
-    "ubuntu-22.04:docker://docker.gitea.com/runner-images:ubuntu-22.04"
-  ],
-  "ephemeral": false
-}
diff --git a/gitea-runner/act_runner b/gitea-runner/act_runner
deleted file mode 100755
index 87cab39..0000000
Binary files a/gitea-runner/act_runner and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/gitea-runner/nohup.out b/gitea-runner/nohup.out
deleted file mode 100644
index f22cdf1..0000000
--- a/gitea-runner/nohup.out
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-time="2026-02-18T16:33:27Z" level=info msg="Starting runner daemon"
-time="2026-02-18T16:33:27Z" level=info msg="runner: stppi, with version: v0.3.0-1-g0f7efae, with labels: [self-hosted ubuntu-latest ubuntu-24.04 ubuntu-22.04], declare successfully"
-time="2026-02-18T16:33:37Z" level=info msg="runner: stppi shutdown initiated, waiting 0s for running jobs to complete before shutting down"
-time="2026-02-18T16:33:37Z" level=error msg="failed to fetch task" error="canceled: context canceled"
diff --git a/gitea-runner/run.sh b/gitea-runner/run.sh
index 5d7e5c5..7bc2960 100755
--- a/gitea-runner/run.sh
+++ b/gitea-runner/run.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ while ! curl -sf http://localhost:3000 > /dev/null 2>&1; do
     sleep 2
 done
 
-echo "localhost:3000 is up. Starting act_runner daemon..." >&2
+echo "localhost:3000 is up." >&2
 
+if [ ! -f .runner ]; then
+    echo "No .runner file found. Registering runner..." >&2
+    ./act_runner register --no-interactive \
+        --instance http://localhost:3000 \
+        --token "${GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN}" \
+        --name "${GITEA_RUNNER_NAME:-pi-runner}" \
+        --labels self-hosted
+fi
+
+echo "Starting act_runner daemon..." >&2
 exec ./act_runner daemon