diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8fb591025ff14bd4c17115e7496e6f904cd9b5c9..b8a7940c84836e38620bb30b5790c61213bf57b3 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ pages:
   script: 
   - cd webpage_contents  
   - quarto render 
+  - mkdir ../public
   - cp -r ../_site/* ../public/  
  
   artifacts: