diff --git a/roles/geoip-city-wsgi/proxy/tasks/main.yml b/roles/geoip-city-wsgi/proxy/tasks/main.yml
index 5f083d1cae..4ff021a7fd 100644
--- a/roles/geoip-city-wsgi/proxy/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/geoip-city-wsgi/proxy/tasks/main.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   - geoip-city-wsgi/proxy
 
 - name: Make a dir for our fancy about page.  So chic!
-  file: dest=/srv/web/geoip state=directory mode=0644 owner=apache group=apache
+  file: dest=/srv/web/geoip state=directory mode=0775 owner=root group=root
   tags:
   - geoip-city-wsgi
   - geoip-city-wsgi/proxy