diff --git a/make-distribution.sh b/make-distribution.sh
index 91f62784912bc2f90e92ec6553e9230d5e1184f7..bffb19843ca17c0ac1cdd7ac3b7a95880b08ffc4 100755
--- a/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/make-distribution.sh
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ cp $FWDIR/assembly/target/scala*/*assembly*hadoop*.jar "$DISTDIR/jars/"
 
 # Copy other things
 mkdir "$DISTDIR"/conf
-cp -r "$FWDIR/conf/*.template" "$DISTDIR"
+cp "$FWDIR/conf/*.template" "$DISTDIR"/conf
 cp -r "$FWDIR/bin" "$DISTDIR"
 cp -r "$FWDIR/python" "$DISTDIR"
 cp "$FWDIR/spark-class" "$DISTDIR"