diff --git a/roles/phabricator/tasks/main.yml b/roles/phabricator/tasks/main.yml
index ae2be1a8fa..c1e030574e 100644
--- a/roles/phabricator/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/phabricator/tasks/main.yml
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@
 - name: create log directory for phabricator
   file: path=/var/log/phabricator state=directory owner={{ phabricator_daemon_user }} group=apache mode=1775
 
-- name: generate phabricator config
-  template: src={{ phabricator_config_filename }}.conf.php.j2 dest={{ phabroot }}/phabricator/conf/{{ phabricator_config_filename }}.conf.php owner=apache group=apache mode=0644
-
 - name: generate phabricator environment
   template: src=ENVIRONMENT.j2 dest={{ phabroot }}/phabricator/conf/local/ENVIRONMENT owner=apache group=apache mode=0644
 
diff --git a/roles/phabricator/templates/local.json.j2 b/roles/phabricator/templates/local.json.j2
index c869ab1bff..755b7942ae 100644
--- a/roles/phabricator/templates/local.json.j2
+++ b/roles/phabricator/templates/local.json.j2
@@ -1,5 +1,32 @@
 {
+  "phabricator.base-uri" : "https:\/\/phab.{{ external_hostname }}\/",
+  "log.ssh.path"  : "\/var\/log\/phabricator\/ssh.log"
+  "log.access.path" : "\/var\/log\/phabricator\/access.log"
+  "mysql.host" : "{{ mariadb_host }}",
+  "mysql.user" : "{{ mariadb_user }}",
+  "mysql.pass" : "{{ mariadb_password }}",
   "load-libraries"       : [],
-  "phabricator.base-uri" : "https:\/\/phab.{{ external_hostname }}\/"
+  "log.access.path" : "/var/log/phabricator/access.log",
+  "log.ssh.path" : "/var/log/phabricator/ssh.log",
+  "phd.pid-directory" : "/var/run/phabricator/",
+  "phd.log-directory" : "/var/log/phabricator/",
+  "phd.user" : "{{ phabricator_daemon_user }}",
+  "environment.append-paths" : ["/usr/libexec/git-core/"],
+  "diffusion.ssh-user" : "{{ phabricator_vcs_user }}",
+  "welcome.html" : "{{ lookup("file", "phabricator-welcome.html") }}",
+  "ui.header-color" : "{{ phabricator_header_color }}",
+  "metamta.default-address" : "phab@{{ external_hostname }}",
+  "metamta.domain" : "{{ external_hostname }}",
+  "metamta.reply-handler-domain" : "{{ external_hostname }}",
+  "metamta.mail-adapter" : "{{ "PhabricatorMailImplementationPHPMailerLiteAdapter" if phabricator_mail_enabled else "PhabricatorMailImplementationTestAdapter"}}",
+  "phabricator.uninstalled-applications" : {
+        "PhabricatorApplicationPhame" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationDiviner" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationLegalpad" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationDrydock" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationHarbormaster" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationOAuthServer" : true,
+        "PhabricatorApplicationPhortune" : true
+        }
 }
 
diff --git a/roles/phabricator/templates/qadevelconfig.conf.php.j2 b/roles/phabricator/templates/qadevelconfig.conf.php.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c977164da..0000000000
--- a/roles/phabricator/templates/qadevelconfig.conf.php.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-//'welcome.html' => '<h1>Fedora QA Devel Phabricator</h1><p>The Fedora QA Devel team uses this phabricator instance for tracking issues, code reviews and some documentation. <ul><li>lists</li><li><a href="http://roshi.fedorapeople.org/dexy/">Links to docs</a></li><li>...</li></ul></p>',
-return array(
-  'mysql.host' => '{{ mariadb_host }}',
-  'mysql.user' => '{{ mariadb_user }}',
-  'mysql.pass' => '{{ mariadb_password }}',
-  'log.access.path' => '/var/log/phabricator/access.log',
-  'log.ssh.path' => '/var/log/phabricator/ssh.log',
-  'phd.pid-directory' => '/var/run/phabricator/',
-  'phd.log-directory' => '/var/log/phabricator/',
-  'phd.user' => '{{ phabricator_daemon_user }}',
-  'environment.append-paths' => ['/usr/libexec/git-core/'],
-  'diffusion.ssh-user' => '{{ phabricator_vcs_user }}',
-  'welcome.html' => '{{ lookup("file", "phabricator-welcome.html") }}',
-  'ui.header-color' => '{{ phabricator_header_color }}',
-  'metamta.default-address' => 'phab@{{ external_hostname }}',
-  'metamta.domain' => '{{ external_hostname }}',
-  'metamta.reply-handler-domain' => '{{ external_hostname }}',
-  'metamta.mail-adapter' => '{{ 'PhabricatorMailImplementationPHPMailerLiteAdapter' if phabricator_mail_enabled else 'PhabricatorMailImplementationTestAdapter'}}',
-  'phabricator.uninstalled-applications' => array(
-        'PhabricatorApplicationPhame' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationDiviner' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationLegalpad' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationDrydock' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationHarbormaster' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationOAuthServer' => true,
-        'PhabricatorApplicationPhortune' => true)
-);