diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index f86d744b8b..1d8d1baa6c 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -238,10 +238,13 @@
 
 # Set-up Pagure
 
-- name: create the /var/www/releases folder
+- name: create the folders used for releases and archives
   file: state=directory
-               path=/var/www/releases
+               path={{ item }}
                owner=git group=git mode=0775
+  with_items:
+  - /var/www/releases
+  - /var/www/archives
   tags:
   - pagure
   - web
diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
index b2f633f830..f1b0586100 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ UPLOAD_FOLDER_URL = 'https://releases.pagure.org/'
 {% endif %}
 UPLOAD_FOLDER_PATH = '/var/www/releases/'
 
+### Folder where are cached the archives
+ARCHIVE_FOLDER = '/var/www/archives/'
+
 
 ### Home folder of the gitolite user
 ### Folder where to run gl-compile-conf from