diff --git a/dspace/bin/start-handle-server-fg b/dspace/bin/start-handle-server-fg
deleted file mode 100644
index a05c43af63cc..000000000000
--- a/dspace/bin/start-handle-server-fg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-###########################################################################
-# The contents of this file are subject to the license and copyright
-# detailed in the LICENSE and NOTICE files at the root of the source
-# tree and available online at
-#
-# http://www.dspace.org/license/
-###########################################################################
-# 'start-handle-server' script
-# Unix shell script for starting Handle server.  WARNING this assumes any
-# previously running Handle servers have been terminated.
-
-# Assume we're in the bin subdirectory of the DSpace installation directory
-BINDIR=`dirname $0`
-
-# Read parameters from DSpace config
-DSPACEDIR=`$BINDIR/dspace dsprop --property dspace.dir`
-HANDLEDIR=`$BINDIR/dspace dsprop --property handle.dir`
-
-# Assume log directory is a subdirectory of DSPACEDIR.
-# If you want your handle server logs stored elsewhere, change this value
-LOGDIR=$DSPACEDIR/log
-
-# Get the JARs in $DSPACEDIR/jsp/WEB-INF/lib, separated by ':'
-JARS=`echo $DSPACEDIR/lib/*.jar | sed 's/ /\:/g'`
-
-# Class path for DSpace will be:
-#   Any existing classpath
-#   The JARs (WEB-INF/lib/*.jar)
-#   The WEB-INF/classes directory
-FULLPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JARS:$DSPACEDIR/config
-
-#Allow user to specify java options through JAVA_OPTS variable
-if [ "$JAVA_OPTS" = "" ]; then
-    #Default Java to use 256MB of memory
-    JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx256m
-fi
-
-# Remove lock file, in case the old Handle server did not shut down properly
-rm -f $HANDLEDIR/txns/lock
-
-# Start the Handle server, with a special log4j properties file.
-# We cannot simply write to the same logs, since log4j
-# does not support more than one JVM writing to the same rolling log.
-java $JAVA_OPTS -classpath $FULLPATH -Ddspace.log.init.disable=true -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-handle-plugin.properties net.handle.server.Main $HANDLEDIR </dev/null >> $LOGDIR/handle-server.log 2>&1