diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 56a03dec24..599c2026a1 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
   - restart apache
 
 - name: Add default facl so apache can read git repos
-  acl: default=yes etype=user entity=apache permissions="rx" name=/srv/git
+  acl: default=yes etype=user entity=apache permissions="rx" name=/srv/git state=present
   register: acl_updates
   tags:
   - pagure