diff --git a/roles/publican_webhost/tasks/main.yml b/roles/publican_webhost/tasks/main.yml
index f751e07779..0ee6626e48 100644
--- a/roles/publican_webhost/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/publican_webhost/tasks/main.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     # needs inspection, web_version maybe?
     # more templating?
 - name: copy publican website config
-  template: src="{{ files }}/docs/publican_website.cfg" dest=/etc/publican-website.cfg
+  template: src=publican_website.cfg dest=/etc/publican-website.cfg
   
     # verify
 - name: copy empty sqlite db; publican only creates this interactively