diff --git a/roles/acme/application/meta/main.yml b/roles/acme/application/meta/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2d6cfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/acme/application/meta/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+
+dependencies:
+  - role: nginx/application
diff --git a/roles/acme/application/tasks/main.yml b/roles/acme/application/tasks/main.yml
index ad5fc48..cac8442 100644
--- a/roles/acme/application/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/acme/application/tasks/main.yml
@@ -42,8 +42,3 @@
   file:
     path: "{{ acme_certificates_directory }}"
     state: "directory"
-
-- name: Create directory for validation
-  file:
-    path: "/var/www/validation"
-    state: "directory"
diff --git a/roles/acme/certificate/tasks/main.yml b/roles/acme/certificate/tasks/main.yml
index dd08220..879b17d 100644
--- a/roles/acme/certificate/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/acme/certificate/tasks/main.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   command: >-
     ./acme.sh --issue
     --domain "{{ domain }}"
-    --webroot "/var/www/validation"
+    --webroot "{{ nginx_validation_directory }}"
   args:
     chdir: "~/.acme.sh"
   register: acme_issue_result
diff --git a/roles/nginx/application/defaults/main.yml b/roles/nginx/application/defaults/main.yml
index a3a88a5..ac648e9 100644
--- a/roles/nginx/application/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nginx/application/defaults/main.yml
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ nginx_snippets_directory: "{{ nginx_installation_directory }}/snippets"
 nginx_global_log_directory: "/var/log/nginx"
 nginx_global_access_log: "{{ nginx_global_log_directory }}/access.log"
 nginx_global_error_log: "{{ nginx_global_log_directory }}/error.log"
+
+nginx_validation_directory: "/var/www/validation"
diff --git a/roles/nginx/application/tasks/main.yml b/roles/nginx/application/tasks/main.yml
index 6380d3c..06954fa 100644
--- a/roles/nginx/application/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nginx/application/tasks/main.yml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     - "{{ nginx_sites_directory }}"
     - "{{ nginx_streams_directory }}"
     - "{{ nginx_snippets_directory }}"
+    - "{{ nginx_validation_directory }}"
 
 - name: Upload snippets to nginx
   copy:
diff --git a/roles/nginx/application/templates/global.conf b/roles/nginx/application/templates/global.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9899d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/nginx/application/templates/global.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+location /.well-known/acme-challenge {
+    root {{ nginx_validation_directory }};
+    access_log on;
+    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+}
+
+location = /robots.txt {
+    allow all;
+    log_not_found off;
+    access_log off;
+}
diff --git a/roles/nginx/application/vars/main.yml b/roles/nginx/application/vars/main.yml
index 0f8ab5a..b5f54c6 100644
--- a/roles/nginx/application/vars/main.yml
+++ b/roles/nginx/application/vars/main.yml
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ nginx_unnecessary_files:
   - sites-enabled
 
 nginx_snippets:
+  - global
   - https
   - ssl
diff --git a/roles/nginx/forward/templates/forward.conf b/roles/nginx/forward/templates/forward.conf
index 96e5fce..45b30c0 100644
--- a/roles/nginx/forward/templates/forward.conf
+++ b/roles/nginx/forward/templates/forward.conf
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ server {
   ssl_certificate_key {{ acme_key_location }};
 
   include {{ nginx_snippets_directory }}/https;
+  include {{ nginx_snippets_directory }}/global;
 
   redirect 301 https://{{ destination }}$request_uri;
 }