diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c7cc2de9..a2a835d0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ install:
   - drush --uri=127.0.0.1:8282 fim -y islandora_core_feature,islandora_text_extraction_defaults
 
 before_script:
+  - mkdir -p $DRUPAL_DIR/web/sites/simpletest/browser_output
   - cp $PHPUNIT_FILE $DRUPAL_DIR/web/core
 
 script: