diff --git a/sapi/apache/config.m4 b/sapi/apache/config.m4
index c9bb7ad304c..bf9b1b6144f 100644
--- a/sapi/apache/config.m4
+++ b/sapi/apache/config.m4
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(mod_charset,
 
 if test -n "$APACHE_MODULE"; then
   PHP_APACHE_CHECK_RDYNAMIC
+  $php_shtool mkdir -p sapi/apache
   PHP_OUTPUT(sapi/apache/libphp4.module)
   PHP_BUILD_STATIC
 fi