diff --git a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/modules/soc/manifests/intelmq.pp b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/modules/soc/manifests/intelmq.pp
index 56c451a..9868091 100644
--- a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/modules/soc/manifests/intelmq.pp
+++ b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/modules/soc/manifests/intelmq.pp
@@ -159,6 +159,13 @@ class soc::intelmq(
     content => '',
   }
 
+  file { '/opt/intelmq/etc/manager':
+    ensure => directory,
+    owner  => 'www-data',
+    group  => 'www-data',
+    mode   => '0775',
+  }
+
   service { 'intelmq-api.service':
     ensure     => running,
     name       => 'intelmq-api.service',