diff --git a/processor b/processor
index 5f507f8..77a3ec2 100755
--- a/processor
+++ b/processor
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ while read hash commit ts id subject; do
 
   # create the containing directory (if it does not yet exist and then generate
   # the commit page
-  mkdir -p "$( dirname "$pagefile" )" \
+  mkdir -p "$( dirname "$path_out/$pagefile" )" \
     && (
       # make the majority of the data available as environment variables (for
       # convenience), lowercase so as not to be conflict with conventional