diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index eafc1a6362..f07d740789 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
   - restart apache
 
 - name: Create the repoSpanner cert directory
-  file: /etc/pagure/repospanner state=directory mode=0640 owner=git group=git
+  file: path=/etc/pagure/repospanner state=directory mode=0640 owner=git group=git
   tags:
   - config
   - pagure