diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
index a7b93c9c4598..df7035c03cc2 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/default.nix
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ let
     let
       documentRoot = if hostOpts.documentRoot != null
         then hostOpts.documentRoot
-        else pkgs.runCommand "empty" { preferLocalBuild = true; } "mkdir -p $out"
+        else pkgs.emptyDirectory
       ;
 
       mkLocations = locations: concatStringsSep "\n" (map (config: ''