diff --git a/backend/models/postgis/project.py b/backend/models/postgis/project.py
index 3b805ac974..0f2b847c95 100644
--- a/backend/models/postgis/project.py
+++ b/backend/models/postgis/project.py
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 )
 from backend.services.grid.grid_service import GridService
 from backend.models.postgis.interests import Interest, project_interests
+import os
 
 # Secondary table defining many-to-many join for projects that were favorited by users.
 project_favorites = db.Table(
@@ -271,7 +272,8 @@ def set_country_info(self):
                 "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
                 "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
                 "Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3"
-            )
+            ),
+            "Referer": os.environ.get("TM_APP_BASE_URL", "https://example.com"),
         }
         try:
             response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
diff --git a/scripts/aws/cloudformation/tasking-manager.template.js b/scripts/aws/cloudformation/tasking-manager.template.js
index d5dc21ec30..7a6eb5e164 100644
--- a/scripts/aws/cloudformation/tasking-manager.template.js
+++ b/scripts/aws/cloudformation/tasking-manager.template.js
@@ -423,6 +423,7 @@ const Resources = {
           'export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive',
           'export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"',
           'export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"',
+          'export PATH=$PATH:/root/.local/bin',
           'dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive locales',
           'sudo apt-get -q -y update',
           'sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -q -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade',
@@ -437,10 +438,10 @@ const Resources = {
           'cd /opt/tasking-manager/',
           cf.sub('git reset --hard ${GitSha}'),
           'pip install --upgrade pip pdm==2.7.4',
+          'pdm export --prod > requirements.txt',
           'wget -6 https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-py3-latest.tar.gz -O /tmp/aws-cfn-bootstrap-py3-latest.tar.gz',
           'pip install /tmp/aws-cfn-bootstrap-py3-latest.tar.gz',
-          'pdm install',
-          'eval "$(pdm venv activate)"',
+          'pip install --user -r requirements.txt',
           'echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf',
           'export LC_ALL=C',
           'wget -6 https://s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent/ubuntu/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb -O /tmp/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.deb',
@@ -474,7 +475,7 @@ const Resources = {
           cf.sub('export TM_IMAGE_UPLOAD_API_KEY="${TaskingManagerImageUploadAPIKey}"'),
           'psql "host=$POSTGRES_ENDPOINT dbname=$POSTGRES_DB user=$POSTGRES_USER password=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD" -c "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS postgis"',
           cf.if('DatabaseDumpFileGiven', cf.sub('aws s3 cp ${DatabaseDump} dump.sql; sudo -u postgres psql "postgresql://$POSTGRES_USER:$POSTGRES_PASSWORD@$POSTGRES_ENDPOINT/$POSTGRES_DB" < dump.sql'), ''),
-          'pdm run -vv flask db upgrade',
+          'flask db upgrade',
           'echo "------------------------------------------------------------"',
           cf.sub('export NEW_RELIC_LICENSE_KEY="${NewRelicLicense}"'),
           cf.sub('export TM_SENTRY_BACKEND_DSN="${SentryBackendDSN}"'),