diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3e5766a17..3d1206997 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ composer.phar
 /tests/results.html
 /tests/*.jar
 VERSION
+airtime_mvc/tests/log/*.log
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/tests/log/.keep b/airtime_mvc/tests/log/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/airtime_mvc/tests/phpunit.xml b/airtime_mvc/tests/phpunit.xml
index 91d14edcc..cc154d7a0 100644
--- a/airtime_mvc/tests/phpunit.xml
+++ b/airtime_mvc/tests/phpunit.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
         <env name="ENVIRONMENT" value="testing"/>
         <env name="AIRTIME_UNIT_TEST" value="1"/>
         <env name="LIBRETIME_CONF_DIR" value="./conf"/>
+        <env name="LIBRETIME_LOG_DIR" value="./log"/>
     </php>
 
     <!-- Disabling broken code coverage report. It's not using our autoloader for some reason...