diff --git a/scripts/refresh-sharding-and-restart b/scripts/refresh-sharding-and-restart
index a76806dee3..76996cddf3 100755
--- a/scripts/refresh-sharding-and-restart
+++ b/scripts/refresh-sharding-and-restart
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ set -e
 "$(dirname "$0")/zulip-puppet-apply" -f
 # The step above should have generated the config files, now we need to move them into place:
 chown root:root /etc/zulip/nginx_sharding.conf.tmp
-chmod 640 /etc/zulip/nginx_sharding.conf.tmp
+chmod 644 /etc/zulip/nginx_sharding.conf.tmp
 chown zulip:zulip /etc/zulip/sharding.json.tmp
 chmod 640 /etc/zulip/sharding.json.tmp
 mv /etc/zulip/nginx_sharding.conf.tmp /etc/zulip/nginx_sharding.conf