diff --git a/nginx/servers_config.sls b/nginx/servers_config.sls
index 5dd11a9..6652d64 100644
--- a/nginx/servers_config.sls
+++ b/nginx/servers_config.sls
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 {% set server_states = [] %}
 {#- _nginx is a lightened copy of nginx map intended to passed in templates #}
 {%- set _nginx = nginx.copy() %}
-{%- do _nginx.pop('snippets') %}
-{%- do _nginx.pop('servers') %}
+{%- do _nginx.pop('snippets') if nginx.snippets is defined %}
+{%- do _nginx.pop('servers') if nginx.servers is defined %}
 
 # Simple path concatenation.
 # Needs work to make this function on windows.
diff --git a/nginx/snippets.sls b/nginx/snippets.sls
index d09ba36..f19905b 100644
--- a/nginx/snippets.sls
+++ b/nginx/snippets.sls
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 
 {#- _nginx is a lightened copy of nginx map intended to passed in templates #}
 {%- set _nginx = nginx.copy() %}
-{%- do _nginx.pop('snippets') %}
-{%- do _nginx.pop('servers') %}
+{%- do _nginx.pop('snippets') if nginx.snippets is defined %}
+{%- do _nginx.pop('servers') if nginx.servers is defined %}
 
 nginx_snippets_dir:
   file.directory: