diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
index a818f8fdef..57fb6d3745 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/crawler/tasks/main.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
   tags:
   - packages
 
+- name: create /etc/mirrormanager
+  file: path=/etc/mirrormanager state=directory
+
 - name: install MM configuration file
   template: src={{ roles }}/mirrormanager/frontend/templates/mirrormanager2.cfg
             dest=/etc/mirrormanager/mirrormanager2.cfg