diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
index eedbca8c44..1d2d69f2f1 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
@@ -40,3 +40,10 @@
   - restart httpd
   tags:
   - config
+
+- name: apply selinux type to crawler log files
+  file: >
+    dest=/var/log/mirrormanager/crawler
+    setype=httpd_sys_content_t
+    state=directory
+    recurse=yes