# \--output-dir with fully qualified path doesn't work

**URL:** <https://zola.discourse.group/t/output-dir-with-fully-qualified-path-doesnt-work/1529>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [November 4, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/output-dir-with-fully-qualified-path-doesnt-work/1529 "2022-11-04T12:28:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 12:28pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/output-dir-with-fully-qualified-path-doesnt-work/1529/1 "2022-11-04T12:28:18Z")

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I’m not sure, but maybe I’m just too stupid to use Zola correctly.  
i am using zola 0.16.1 (flatpak) under Debian stable in a fish shell.  
The goal was to copy the zola documentation to my local webserver for easy access offline.  
So in the docs directory I can without problems  
`zola build --output-dir zoladoc --base-url 'http://localhost/zola/'`  
without any problems.  
But when I specify the destination directory fully qualified, the page is not created.  
`zola build --output-dir /var/tmp/zola/doc --base-url 'http://localhost/zola/'`  
No error is displayed either.  
And now as I type it, it strikes me. Probably zola doesn’t have enough permissions via flatpak.  
But then I would still expect an error message.  
I’ll investigate further.