diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 1c3d5df6a8..b5c2a83140 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -274,10 +274,9 @@
     mode: 0700
     owner: apache
     group: apache
-  when: inventory_hostname.startswith('bodhi-backend02')
+  when: inventory_hostname.startswith('bodhi-backend02') and env == "production"
   tags:
   - bodhi
-  when: env == "production"
 
 #
 # cron job that syncs updates to master mirror