diff --git a/basis/help/html/html.factor b/basis/help/html/html.factor
index 763cc68c42..d14db69c5a 100644
--- a/basis/help/html/html.factor
+++ b/basis/help/html/html.factor
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ M: topic browser-link-href topic>filename ;
{ "resource:core" "resource:basis" "resource:extra" } vocab-roots [
load-everything
+ "/tmp/docs/" make-directory
+
"/tmp/docs/" [
generate-indices
generate-help-files
diff --git a/extra/webapps/help/help.xml b/extra/webapps/help/help.xml
index f71db15e19..f4262a6f6a 100644
--- a/extra/webapps/help/help.xml
+++ b/extra/webapps/help/help.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@