diff -r ce33bf94045f -r 2e0366f2dcbe mercurial/web/tasks/main.yaml
--- a/mercurial/web/tasks/main.yaml	Sun Jan 21 15:58:58 2024 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/web/tasks/main.yaml	Sun Feb 04 20:27:19 2024 -0600
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
     - "python3-pygments"
   notify: restart uwsgi
 
+- name: make hgweb dir
+  become: yes
+  file:
+    path: "{{mercurial_uwsgi_root}}"
+    state: "directory"
+
 - name: configure hgweb
   become: yes
   template: src="{{item}}.j2" dest="{{mercurial_uwsgi_root}}/{{item}}"