diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e06283ae..14233d08 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ env:
   CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
   RUSTFLAGS: "-Dwarnings"
   DATABASE_URL: "postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost/oxicloud_test"
+  # Re-enable the legacy build.rs static-dist + OUT_DIR HTML pipeline.
+  # Required while login_v2_handler.rs still uses
+  # `include_str!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/nextcloud-login.html"))`;
+  # without this, every cargo job fails to compile that file.
+  # Remove once the Nextcloud login page moves off include_str! (askama).
+  OXICLOUD_RUST_ASSETS: "1"
 
 jobs:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/load-nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/load-nightly.yml
index 31e16c73..0c09bcce 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/load-nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/load-nightly.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ on:
 
 env:
   CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  # See ci.yml — required while login_v2_handler.rs uses include_str! against OUT_DIR.
+  OXICLOUD_RUST_ASSETS: "1"
 
 jobs:
   load:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/load-smoke.yml b/.github/workflows/load-smoke.yml
index 330f5536..931bdeec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/load-smoke.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/load-smoke.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ on:
 
 env:
   CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
+  # See ci.yml — required while login_v2_handler.rs uses include_str! against OUT_DIR.
+  OXICLOUD_RUST_ASSETS: "1"
 
 jobs:
   smoke: