diff --git a/playbooks/groups/proxies-websites.yml b/playbooks/groups/proxies-websites.yml
index c45363b6da..bbe71e5d71 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/proxies-websites.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/proxies-websites.yml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
   pre_tasks:
   - name: Create /srv/web/ for all the goodies.
-    file: dest=/srv/web owner=apache group=apache mode=0775 state=directory
+    file: dest=/srv/web owner=root group=root mode=0755 state=directory
     tags:
     - httpd
     - httpd/website