diff --git a/playbooks/groups/badges-web.yml b/playbooks/groups/badges-web.yml
index 6626eeb79c..5c3c044e49 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/badges-web.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/badges-web.yml
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
   - include: $tasks/denyhosts.yml
   - include: $tasks/nagios_client.yml
   - include: $tasks/openvpn_client.yml
-    when: "env != 'staging'"
+    only_if: "'$env' != 'staging'"
   - include: $tasks/fedmsg_base.yml
   - include: $tasks/apache.yml
   - include: $tasks/mod_wsgi.yml