diff --git a/roles/aurweb/templates/nginx.d.conf.j2 b/roles/aurweb/templates/nginx.d.conf.j2
index e8de5aa1b301728f5659fd1264b465c43fd43792..da067510fb9912485a25b9b2d3d33ceecc1b60b3 100644
--- a/roles/aurweb/templates/nginx.d.conf.j2
+++ b/roles/aurweb/templates/nginx.d.conf.j2
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ server {
     }
 
     location ~ \.gz$ {
+        root    {{ aurweb_dir }}/archives;
         default_type text/plain;
         add_header Content-Encoding gzip;
         expires 5m;