diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/deploy/aws.js b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/deploy/aws.js
index 5c788a9dcc..626a768964 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/deploy/aws.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/deploy/aws.js
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ const { budibaseAppsDir } = require("../../../utilities/budibaseDir")
 const PouchDB = require("../../../db")
 const env = require("../../../environment")
 
+const EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES = ["css"]
+
 /**
  * Finalises the deployment, updating the quota for the user API key
  * The verification process returns the levels to update to.
@@ -140,10 +142,17 @@ exports.uploadAppAssets = async function({ appId, bucket, accountId }) {
 
   // Upload HTML, CSS and JS of the web app
   walkDir(appAssetsPath, function(filePath) {
+    const filePathParts = filePath.split("/")
+    const publicIndex = filePathParts.indexOf("public")
+    const directory = filePathParts[publicIndex + 1]
+    // don't include these top level directories
+    if (EXCLUDED_DIRECTORIES.indexOf(directory) !== -1) {
+      return
+    }
     const appAssetUpload = prepareUploadForS3({
       file: {
         path: filePath,
-        name: [...filePath.split("/")].pop(),
+        name: filePathParts.pop(),
       },
       s3Key: filePath.replace(appAssetsPath, `assets/${appId}`),
       s3,
diff --git a/packages/server/src/constants/screens.js b/packages/server/src/constants/screens.js
index 88a87c2aec..6d11351415 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/constants/screens.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/constants/screens.js
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ exports.LOGIN_SCREEN = {
   },
   routing: {
     route: "/",
-    accessLevelId: BUILTIN_LEVEL_IDS.PUBLIC,
+    accessLevelId: BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS.PUBLIC,
   },
   name: "login-screen",
 }