diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index da7d206..3890fb2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ test-results/
 
 # Meilisearch
 data.ms/
+meilisearch-data/
diff --git a/server/config/meilisearch.js b/server/config/meilisearch.js
index 2d10884..0af6798 100644
--- a/server/config/meilisearch.js
+++ b/server/config/meilisearch.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { dirname, join } from 'path';
 const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 
 const MEILISEARCH_HOST = process.env.MEILISEARCH_HOST || 'http://127.0.0.1:7700';
-const MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY = process.env.MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY || 'masterKey';
+const MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY = process.env.MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY || 'changeme123';
 const INDEX_NAME = process.env.MEILISEARCH_INDEX_NAME || 'navidocs-pages';
 
 let client = null;
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ let index = null;
 
 export function getMeilisearchClient() {
   if (!client) {
+    console.log(`[Meilisearch] Initializing client with host=${MEILISEARCH_HOST}, apiKey=${MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY}`);
     client = new MeiliSearch({
       host: MEILISEARCH_HOST,
       apiKey: MEILISEARCH_MASTER_KEY
diff --git a/server/workers/ocr-worker.js b/server/workers/ocr-worker.js
index a54ad5f..dd57aad 100644
--- a/server/workers/ocr-worker.js
+++ b/server/workers/ocr-worker.js
@@ -11,13 +11,21 @@
  * - Handle failures and update job status
  */
 
+import dotenv from 'dotenv';
 import { Worker } from 'bullmq';
 import Redis from 'ioredis';
 import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
+import { dirname, join } from 'path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
 import { getDb } from '../config/db.js';
 import { extractTextFromPDF, cleanOCRText } from '../services/ocr.js';
 import { indexDocumentPage } from '../services/search.js';
 
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+
+// Load environment variables from server directory
+dotenv.config({ path: join(__dirname, '../.env') });
+
 // Redis connection for BullMQ
 const connection = new Redis({
   host: process.env.REDIS_HOST || '127.0.0.1',