diff --git a/nova/templates/bin/_nova-placement-api.sh.tpl b/nova/templates/bin/_nova-placement-api.sh.tpl
index 8965fb7635..bc15a37d41 100644
--- a/nova/templates/bin/_nova-placement-api.sh.tpl
+++ b/nova/templates/bin/_nova-placement-api.sh.tpl
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ function start () {
   if [ -f /etc/apache2/envvars ]; then
      # Loading Apache2 ENV variables
      source /etc/apache2/envvars
+     # The directory below has to be created due to the fact that
+     # libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 doesn't create it in contrary by libapache2-mod-wsgi
+     if [ ! -d ${APACHE_RUN_DIR} ]; then
+        mkdir -p ${APACHE_RUN_DIR}
+     fi
   fi
 
   # Start Apache2