diff --git a/roles/kojipkgs/tasks/main.yml b/roles/kojipkgs/tasks/main.yml
index c0fff4019c..a6c10e5726 100644
--- a/roles/kojipkgs/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/kojipkgs/tasks/main.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
   - kojipkgs
 
 - name: make sure httpd ssl.conf is not around (conflicts with squid)
-  file: dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf state=absent
+  copy: dest=/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf content='# this is a simple file to make apache not listen on 443'
   notify:
   - reload httpd
   tags: