diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
index 77cfdfce11..da44c86d41 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/templates/pagure.cfg
@@ -196,3 +196,9 @@ SSH_KEYS = {
     }
 }
 {% endif %}
+
+# Allow the backward compatiblity endpoints for the old URLs schema to
+# see the commits of a repo. This is only interesting if you pagure instance
+# was running since before version 1.3 and if you care about backward
+# compatibility in your URLs.
+OLD_VIEW_COMMIT_ENABLED = True