diff --git a/roles/pdc/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pdc/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 3c27db11f4..790531232f 100644
--- a/roles/pdc/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pdc/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@
     - pdc
     - cron
 
+- name: cron to generate cache of active component branches for pagure-sync-bugzilla
+  cron: name="export-branches" minute="15" user="apache"
+      job="/usr/local/bin/lock-wrapper export-branches 'python /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdc/manage.py exportbranches > /var/www/html/extras/active_branches.json'"
+      cron_file=export-branches
+  tags:
+  - pdc
+  - cron
+
 - name: Copy over httpd config
   template: src=pdc.conf dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/pdc.conf
   notify: reload httpd
diff --git a/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf b/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
index 5f279ff14d..17add4bf7a 100644
--- a/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
+++ b/roles/pdc/frontend/templates/pdc.conf
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ WSGIScriptAlias /  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdc/wsgi.py
     # Try to find them in the patternfly files
     RewriteRule "^/static/(.*)" "/usr/share/patternfly1/resources/$1" [L]
 
+    # An entry for our exported branches
+    RewriteCond "/var/www/html/extras/$1" -f
+    RewriteRule "^/extras/(.*)" "/var/www/html/extras/$1" [L]
+
     <Location "/">
         SetHandler wsgi-script
 
@@ -85,6 +89,21 @@ WSGIScriptAlias /  /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdc/wsgi.py
         ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years"
     </Location>
 
+    <Location "/extras">
+        SetHandler None
+
+        # Disable auth on the extras content, so that we're aren't forced to
+        # use Kerberos.  Doing so would remove "Expires" headers from the extras
+        # content, which would lead to poor page-load times.
+        AuthType none
+        Satisfy Any
+        Require all granted
+
+        # Many file types are likely to benefit from compression
+        # Enable gzip compression on them:
+        AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript text/css
+    </Location>
+
     <Location "/docs">
         SetHandler None