diff --git a/doc/global/qt-module-defaults-online.qdocconf b/doc/global/qt-module-defaults-online.qdocconf
index 4b682cfd6c9..df7d871ec15 100644
--- a/doc/global/qt-module-defaults-online.qdocconf
+++ b/doc/global/qt-module-defaults-online.qdocconf
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@ include(config.qdocconf)
 
 # single-directory output mode
 HTML.nosubdirs = "true"
-HTML.outputsubdir = "html"
+HTML.outputsubdir = "../html"