diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5c7c84b0ea0..6a1eda3c276 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 AUTHORS
 build/*
 build-stamp
+doc/build
 quantum.egg-info/
 run_tests.err.log
 run_tests.log
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index dbb13fb0679..3a683a44fa3 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+[build_sphinx]
+all_files = 1
+build-dir = doc/build
+source-dir = doc/source
+
 [nosetests]
 # NOTE(jkoelker) To run the test suite under nose install the following
 #                coverage http://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage