diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 655b9a46ed..d244b0bc24 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -139,6 +139,25 @@
   - pagure
   - mirror
 
+# We need the SSL certs early on
+
+- name: Install the SSL cert so that we can use https
+  copy: >
+      src={{ private}}/files/httpd/{{ item }} dest=/etc/pki/tls/certs/{{ item }}
+      owner=root group=root mode=0600
+  notify: restart stunnel
+  with_items:
+  - pagure.io.cert
+  - pagure.io.key
+  - pagure.io.intermediate.cert
+  - docs.pagure.org.crt
+  - docs.pagure.org.intermediate.crt
+  - docs.pagure.org.key
+  tags:
+  - config
+  - pagure
+  - httpd/certificate
+
 # Set-up postfix and the milter for postfix
 
 - name: Add the /etc/aliases file
@@ -365,23 +384,6 @@
   - web
   - pagure
 
-- name: Install the SSL cert so that we can use https
-  copy: >
-      src={{ private}}/files/httpd/{{ item }} dest=/etc/pki/tls/certs/{{ item }}
-      owner=root group=root mode=0600
-  notify: restart stunnel
-  with_items:
-  - pagure.io.cert
-  - pagure.io.key
-  - pagure.io.intermediate.cert
-  - docs.pagure.org.crt
-  - docs.pagure.org.intermediate.crt
-  - docs.pagure.org.key
-  tags:
-  - config
-  - pagure
-  - httpd/certificate
-
 - name: Install the configuration file to activate https
   template: src={{ item }} dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/{{ item }}
             owner=root group=root mode=0644