diff --git a/productMods/WEB-INF/classes/smokeTests/vivoTests.txt b/productMods/WEB-INF/classes/smokeTests/vivoTests.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8216eb5c..00000000
--- a/productMods/WEB-INF/classes/smokeTests/vivoTests.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Note: The classes mentioned below must be present in 
-# edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.utils.smoketest package.
-
-SolrContextChecker
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/productMods/WEB-INF/web.xml b/productMods/WEB-INF/web.xml
index db788e92..fcc2e63f 100644
--- a/productMods/WEB-INF/web.xml
+++ b/productMods/WEB-INF/web.xml
@@ -1400,15 +1400,6 @@
     <url-pattern>/searchService/*</url-pattern>
   </servlet-mapping>
   
-  <servlet>
-    <servlet-name>SmokeTestController</servlet-name>
-    <servlet-class>edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.SmokeTestController</servlet-class>
-  </servlet>
-  <servlet-mapping>
-    <servlet-name>SmokeTestController</servlet-name>
-    <url-pattern>/smoketest</url-pattern>
-  </servlet-mapping>
-  
  
   <!-- ==================== tag libraries ============================== -->
   <jsp-config>