diff --git a/docker/entrypoint.sh b/docker/entrypoint.sh
index 62b8c47c..f28c0cbf 100644
--- a/docker/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/entrypoint.sh
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ start_and_monitor() {
   echo "Starting WGDashboard directly with Gunicorn..."
 
   [[ ! -d ${WGDASH}/src/log ]] && mkdir ${WGDASH}/src/log
+  [[ ! -d ${WGDASH}/src/download ]] && mkdir ${WGDASH}/src/download
   ${WGDASH}/src/venv/bin/gunicorn --config ${WGDASH}/src/gunicorn.conf.py
 
   resolvconf -u