diff --git a/roles/anitya/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/anitya/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 9ffa60f245..f7da268895 100644
--- a/roles/anitya/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/anitya/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 - name: create the folder where we store the ssl cert if not already there
   action: file state=directory
                path=/etc/pki/tls/certs/
-               owner=root group=root mode=0644
+               owner=root group=root mode=0755
 
 - name: Install the SSL cert so that we can use https
   copy: >