diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a77ff3e..6e85dc3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,5 +17,3 @@
 /unknown/
 /lib/fonts/
 
-# for data/
-/data
diff --git a/data/.gitignore b/data/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5e7d273
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# Ignore everything in this directory
+*
+# Except this file
+!.gitignore
diff --git a/tests/run.sh b/tests/run.sh
index 0a81ad4..b26a54b 100755
--- a/tests/run.sh
+++ b/tests/run.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ set -ex
 python3 -m venv testEnv
 source ./testEnv/bin/activate
 pip install locust
+mkdir -p data/
 java -jar target/scala-2.13/LibreCaptcha.jar &
 JAVA_PID=$!
 sleep 4