diff --git a/roles/matomo/tasks/install.yml b/roles/matomo/tasks/install.yml
index e5d22fcfb..dabac9274 100644
--- a/roles/matomo/tasks/install.yml
+++ b/roles/matomo/tasks/install.yml
@@ -180,6 +180,13 @@
     body_format: form-urlencoded
     status_code: 302
 
+- name: Set Matomo Directory Permissions
+  file:
+    path: "{{ matomo_path }}/matomo"
+    recurse: yes
+    owner: "{{ apache_user }}"    # e.g. www-data
+    group: "{{ apache_user }}"
+
 - name: Start Collecting Matomo Data
   cron:
     name: "MatomoDataIngestionOnReboot"