diff --git a/roles/archwiki/tasks/main.yml b/roles/archwiki/tasks/main.yml
index e3bbf020..f928f702 100644
--- a/roles/archwiki/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/archwiki/tasks/main.yml
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@
   when: maintenance is not defined
   tags: ['nginx']
 
-- name: remove old fastcgi cache directory
-  file: path=/etc/nginx/wikicache state=absent
-
 - name: configure robots.txt
   copy: src=robots.txt dest="{{ archwiki_dir }}/robots.txt" owner=root group=root mode=0644