diff --git a/omero/plugins/web.py b/omero/plugins/web.py
index 9653eb9a8b..6dbc3d6a03 100644
--- a/omero/plugins/web.py
+++ b/omero/plugins/web.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from omero_ext.argparse import SUPPRESS
 
 from omero_ext.path import path
-from pkg_resources import resource_string
+from importlib_resources import files
 
 from omero.install.windows_warning import windows_warning, WINDOWS_WARNING
 
@@ -342,8 +342,8 @@ def config(self, args, settings):
         if settings.APPLICATION_SERVER not in settings.WSGI_TYPES:
             self.ctx.die(679, "Web template configuration requires" "wsgi or wsgi-tcp.")
 
-        template_file = "%s.conf.template" % server
-        c = resource_string("omeroweb", "templates/" + template_file).decode("utf-8")
+        template_file = "templates/%s.conf.template" % server
+        c = files("omeroweb").joinpath(template_file).read_text()
         self.ctx.out(c % d)
 
     def syncmedia(self, args):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 71bf4abe85..8c89e6e6ac 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def read(fname):
         # minimum requirements for `omero web start`
         "concurrent-log-handler>=0.9.20",
         "Django>=4.2.3,<4.3",
-        "django-pipeline==2.1.0",
+        "django-pipeline",
         "django-cors-headers==3.7.0",
         "whitenoise>=5.3.0",
         "gunicorn>=19.3",
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ def read(fname):
         "pytz",
         "portalocker",
         "packaging",
+        "importlib-resources",
     ],
     include_package_data=True,
     tests_require=["pytest"],