diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/make-minio-bucket.sh b/.gitlab-ci/make-minio-bucket.sh
index 1287696ba..3797ba0b0 100755
--- a/.gitlab-ci/make-minio-bucket.sh
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/make-minio-bucket.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
 #!nix-shell -i bash -p bash -p coreutils -p minio-client
 
-export MC_HOST_minio=https://$(cat /minio-gitlab-runner-cache/accesskey):$(cat /minio-gitlab-runner-cache/secretkey)@minio-gitlab-runner-cache:9000
+export MC_HOST_minio=http://$(cat /minio-gitlab-runner-cache/accesskey):$(cat /minio-gitlab-runner-cache/secretkey)@minio-gitlab-runner-cache:9000
 
 mc mb --ignore-existing minio/nix-cache