diff --git a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
index 069e6f0652..c281900b6c 100644
--- a/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nagios_server/tasks/main.yml
@@ -70,12 +70,12 @@
 
 ## Copy over system configs
 - name: Copy httpd config
-  template: src="{{ files }}/httpd/nagios.conf" dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf
+  template: src=httpd/nagios.conf dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf
   tags:
   - nagios_server
 
 - name: Copy specialized nrpe.cfg for nagios server
-  copy: src="{{ files }}/nrpe/nrpe.cfg" dest=/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg mode=0644 group=root owner=root
+  copy: src=nrpe/nrpe.cfg dest=/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg mode=0644 group=root owner=root
   notify:
   - restart nrpe
   tags:
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 
 ## Copy over the command scripts
 - name: Copy /etc/nagios/commands
-  synchronize: src="{{ files }}/nagios/commands/" dest=/etc/nagios/commands/
+  synchronize: src=nagios/commands/ dest=/etc/nagios/commands/
   tags:
   - nagios-config
   - nagios_server