diff --git a/htdocs/js/MathJaxConfig/mathjax-config.js b/htdocs/js/MathJaxConfig/mathjax-config.js
index c998d67ce5..0d52c5095a 100644
--- a/htdocs/js/MathJaxConfig/mathjax-config.js
+++ b/htdocs/js/MathJaxConfig/mathjax-config.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 if (!window.MathJax) {
 	window.MathJax = {
-		tex: { packages: { '[+]': ['noerrors'] } },
-		loader: { load: ['input/asciimath', '[tex]/noerrors'] },
+		loader: { load: ['input/asciimath'] },
 		startup: {
 			ready() {
 				const AM = MathJax.InputJax.AsciiMath.AM;
diff --git a/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm b/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm
index be8ce17e7e..8185d8b3a1 100644
--- a/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm
+++ b/lib/WeBWorK/ContentGenerator.pm
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ use MIME::Base64;
 use Scalar::Util qw(weaken);
 use HTML::Entities;
 use Encode;
+use Mojo::JSON qw(encode_json);
 
 use WeBWorK::File::Scoring qw(parse_scoring_file);
 use WeBWorK::Localize;
@@ -682,20 +683,15 @@ sub page_title ($c) {
 	return route_title($c, $c->current_route, 1);
 }
 
-=item webwork_url
+=item webwork_js_config
 
-Defined in this package.
-
-Outputs the $webwork_url defined in site.conf, unless $webwork_url is equal to
-"/", in which case this outputs the empty string.
-
-This is used to set a value in a global webworkConfig javascript variable,
-that can be accessed in javascript files.
+Outputs the webwork2 JavaScript configuration.  This configuration can be
+accessed by JavaScript files to obtain various webwork2 settings.
 
 =cut
 
-sub webwork_url ($c) {
-	return $c->location;
+sub webwork_js_config ($c) {
+	return encode_json({ webwork_url => $c->location });
 }
 
 =item warnings()
diff --git a/templates/ContentGenerator/SampleProblemViewer.html.ep b/templates/ContentGenerator/SampleProblemViewer.html.ep
index e8d24daf4f..6837417146 100644
--- a/templates/ContentGenerator/SampleProblemViewer.html.ep
+++ b/templates/ContentGenerator/SampleProblemViewer.html.ep
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 	<%= javascript $c->url({
 		type => 'webwork', name => 'htdocs', file => 'node_modules/minisearch/dist/umd/index.js'
 	}), defer => undef =%>
-	<script>const webworkConfig = { webwork_url: '<%= $c->webwork_url %>' };</script>
+	<script>const webworkConfig = <%== $c->webwork_js_config %>;</script>
 	<%= javascript $c->url({
 		type => 'webwork', name => 'htdocs', file => 'js/SampleProblemViewer/documentation-search.js'
 	}), defer => undef =%>
diff --git a/templates/layouts/system.html.ep b/templates/layouts/system.html.ep
index f2b0be7f1b..282890b782 100644
--- a/templates/layouts/system.html.ep
+++ b/templates/layouts/system.html.ep
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 % }
 %
 % # Webwork configuration for javascript
-<script>const webworkConfig = { webwork_url: '<%= $c->webwork_url %>' };</script>
+<script>const webworkConfig = <%== $c->webwork_js_config %>;</script>
 %
 % # JS Loads
 <%= javascript $c->url({ type => 'webwork', name => 'htdocs', file => 'js/MathJaxConfig/mathjax-config.js' }),