diff --git a/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg b/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
index 55cbdb8e28..e4c8a9d45c 100644
--- a/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
+++ b/roles/distgit/pagure/templates/pagure.cfg
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ TICKETS_FOLDER = None
 REMOTE_GIT_FOLDER = '/srv/git/remotes'
 
 ### Configuration file for gitolite
-GITOLITE_CONFIG = '/srv/git/.gitolite/conf/gitolite.conf.pagure'
+GITOLITE_CONFIG = '/srv/git/.gitolite/conf/gitolite.conf'
+
+### File to include at the top of the gitolite configuration file
+GITOLITE_PRE_CONFIG = '/var/tmp/gitolite-prefix.txt'
 
 ### Temp folder to be used to make the clones to work around bug in libgit2:
 ## refs: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/2965