diff --git a/inventory/group_vars/all b/inventory/group_vars/all
index 07b2aa183b..0e59611317 100644
--- a/inventory/group_vars/all
+++ b/inventory/group_vars/all
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ max_cpu: "{{ num_cpus * 5 }}"
 # the staging group and is used in the proxies.yml playbook.
 wildcard_cert_name: wildcard-2014.fedoraproject.org
 
+# We define this here so non ssl sites can still use the same template as ssl sites
+# without ansible getting mad that cert_name isn't defined (even though it doesn't use it)
+cert_name: undefined
+
 # By default, nodes get no fedmsg certs.  They need to declare them explicitly.
 fedmsg_certs: []