diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index d144d28..5b05833 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ COPY parse_db_url.sh /usr/local/bin/parse_db_url.sh
 USER root
 RUN chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/parse_db_url.sh
 
-RUN mkdir -p /var/lib/gitea/custom/conf
-
 ENV DATABASE_URL=${DATABASE_URL}
 
 CMD ["/usr/local/bin/parse_db_url.sh"]
diff --git a/parse_db_url.sh b/parse_db_url.sh
index 6e5f588..858cdc3 100644
--- a/parse_db_url.sh
+++ b/parse_db_url.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+exec mkdir /var/lib/gitea/custom/conf
+
 export GITEA__database__DB_TYPE=postgres
 export GITEA__database__USER=$(echo ${DATABASE_URL} | sed -r "s|.*://([^:]+):.*|\1|")
 export GITEA__database__PASSWD=$(echo ${DATABASE_URL} | sed -r "s|.*://[^:]+:([^@]+)@.*|\1|")