diff --git a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
index 7ef6429b3a..4ff21d295b 100644
--- a/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
+++ b/playbooks/hosts/fed-cloud09.cloud.fedoraproject.org.yml
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
   - name: add ssl key for nova
     copy: src={{ private }}/files/openstack/fed-cloud09.key dest=/etc/pki/tls/private/fed-cloud09-nova.key mode=600 owner=nova group=root
 
-  - file: state=directory path=/var/www/pub mode=0644
+  - file: state=directory path=/var/www/pub mode=0755
   - copy: src={{ private }}/files/openstack/fed-cloud09.pem dest=/var/www/pub/ mode=644
 
   # http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/install-guide/install/yum/content/basics-database-controller.html