diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index bff8d6676e..00bdbae861 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 coverage.out
 
 # compile HTML
-_build/
+docs/_build/
 docs.log
 
 # log dirs
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 01c8a16d63..be98ca6d01 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ set -e
 build_stream=${1:-edinburgh}
 
 docker build -t doc-builder:latest -f Dockerfile.build --build-arg STREAM=${build_stream} .
-rm -rf _build
-mkdir _build
+rm -rf docs/_build
+mkdir -p docs/_build
 
 # Build documentation in container
 
-docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)"/_build:/docbuild/_build doc-builder:latest
+docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)"/docs/_build:/docbuild/_build doc-builder:latest