diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf b/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
index c2526f1962..fd8c0e2be8 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/files/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ var.socket_dir  = home_dir + "/sockets"
 #######################################################################
 ##
 ## Load the modules.
-include "modules.conf"
+#include "modules.conf"
 server.modules = (
   "mod_access",
   "mod_setenv",
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ server.network-backend = "linux-sendfile"
 ##
 ## With SELinux enabled, this is denied by default and needs to be allowed
 ## by running the following once : setsebool -P httpd_setrlimit on
-#server.max-fds = 2048
+server.max-fds = 2048
 
 ##
 ## Stat() call caching.
diff --git a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
index c0f403cb2f..b2aa7fcaf4 100644
--- a/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
   when: not devel
   include: "install_certs.yml"
 
+- name: allow lighttpd set fds limit
+  seboolean: name=httpd_setrlimit state=yes persistent=yes
+
+- name: create directory for compress module of lighttpd
+  file: path=/var/cache/lighttpd/compress owner=lighttpd group=lighttpd mode=0644 state=directory
+
 # mime default to text/plain and enable dirlisting for indexes
 - name: update lighttpd configs
   copy: src="lighttpd/{{ item }}" dest="/etc/lighttpd/conf.d/{{ item }}" owner=root group=root mode=0644