diff --git a/roles/graphite/graphite/tasks/main.yml b/roles/graphite/graphite/tasks/main.yml
index a2ef7d0bfe..5d05f23c75 100644
--- a/roles/graphite/graphite/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/graphite/graphite/tasks/main.yml
@@ -43,3 +43,6 @@
   command: /usr/bin/graphite-manage syncdb --noinput
   tags:
   - graphite
+
+- name: chown the sqlite database to apache.apache
+  file: path=/var/lib/graphite-web/graphite.db owner=apache group=apache