diff --git a/docs/doxygen/Doxyfile.in b/docs/doxygen/Doxyfile.in
index 857e0818..3a9debb4 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/Doxyfile.in
+++ b/docs/doxygen/Doxyfile.in
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ PROJECT_ICON           =
 # entered, it will be relative to the location where doxygen was started. If
 # left blank the current directory will be used.
 
-OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = ../_readthedocs/html
+OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = @PROJECT_BINARY_DIR@/html/doxygen
 
 # If the CREATE_SUBDIRS tag is set to YES then doxygen will create up to 4096
 # sub-directories (in 2 levels) under the output directory of each output format