diff --git a/.github/workflows/client.yml b/.github/workflows/client.yml
index 61df986665..1bac981012 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/client.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/client.yml
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ jobs:
         --env APPSMITH_REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379 \
         --env APPSMITH_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD=password \
         --env APPSMITH_ENCRYPTION_SALT=salt \
+        --env APPSMITH_IS_SELF_HOSTED=false \
         appsmith/appsmith-server:release
 
     - name: Installing Yarn serve
diff --git a/.github/workflows/server.yml b/.github/workflows/server.yml
index 0f51fb356f..b357d3856a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/server.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ jobs:
         APPSMITH_REDIS_URL: "redis://127.0.0.1:6379"
         APPSMITH_ENCRYPTION_PASSWORD: "password"
         APPSMITH_ENCRYPTION_SALT: "salt"
+        APPSMITH_IS_SELF_HOSTED: false
       run: mvn -B package
 
     # Here, the GITHUB_REF is of type /refs/head/<branch_name>. We extract branch_name from this by removing the
diff --git a/app/client/README.md b/app/client/README.md
index aa4dde788b..9521fb10f7 100755
--- a/app/client/README.md
+++ b/app/client/README.md
@@ -82,4 +82,4 @@ This section has moved here: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/tr
 
 ### Cypress tests via Github Actions
 
-The cypress tests run via Github actions pull the `release` Docker image of the server to run as a service locally. This is to ensure that we don't face any network flakiness during tests.
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+The cypress tests run via Github Actions. The Github Action pulls the `release` Docker image of the server to run as a service locally. This is to ensure that we don't face any network flakiness during tests.
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diff --git a/app/server/README.md b/app/server/README.md
index e6450c3c95..bf6d276c69 100644
--- a/app/server/README.md
+++ b/app/server/README.md
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ In order to test the code, you can run the following command
 mvn -B clean package
 ```
 
-Please make sure that you have a local Redis instance running for the test cases. The MongoDB is run in-memory during tests so that shouldn't be a problem.
+Please make sure that you have a local Redis instance running for the test cases. During tests, the MongoDB is run in-memory. So you don't require to be running a local MongoDB instance.
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