diff --git a/inventory/host_vars/pdc.fedorainfracloud.org b/inventory/host_vars/pdc.fedorainfracloud.org
index c83a7b7672..57782d7902 100644
--- a/inventory/host_vars/pdc.fedorainfracloud.org
+++ b/inventory/host_vars/pdc.fedorainfracloud.org
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ tcp_ports: [22, 80, 443]
 inventory_tenant: persistent
 inventory_instance_name: pdc
 hostbase: pdc.fedorainfracloud.org
+hostname: pdc.fedorainfracloud.org
 public_ip: 209.132.184.106
 root_auth_users: pingou
 description: pdc development instance
diff --git a/roles/pdc/templates/pdc.conf b/roles/pdc/templates/pdc.conf
index 8c3461bd3a..edc66192e9 100644
--- a/roles/pdc/templates/pdc.conf
+++ b/roles/pdc/templates/pdc.conf
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi
 WSGIPythonOptimize 1
 WSGIDaemonProcess pdc user=apache group=apache maximum-requests=1000 display-name=pdc processes=2 threads=1 shutdown-timeout=10
 
-<VirtualHost {{ hostbase }}:80>
-    ServerName {{ hostbase }}
+<VirtualHost {{ hostname }}:80>
+    ServerName {{ hostname }}
 
     CustomLog /var/log/httpd/pdc-access.log combined
     ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/pdc-error.log
diff --git a/roles/pdc/templates/settings_local.py b/roles/pdc/templates/settings_local.py
index 6af9c57ae8..52db2fa455 100644
--- a/roles/pdc/templates/settings_local.py
+++ b/roles/pdc/templates/settings_local.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ REST_API_VERSION = 'v1'
 
 BROWSABLE_DOCUMENT_MACROS = {
     # need to be rewrite with the real host name when deploy.
-    'HOST_NAME': 'http://{{ hostbase }}:80',
+    'HOST_NAME': 'http://{{ hostname }}:80',
     # make consistent with rest api root.
     'API_PATH': '%s%s' % (REST_API_URL, REST_API_VERSION),
 }