diff --git a/archivebox/core/models.py b/archivebox/core/models.py
index 9d9af6fa..a3b97467 100644
--- a/archivebox/core/models.py
+++ b/archivebox/core/models.py
@@ -3669,6 +3669,7 @@ class Snapshot(ModelWithDeleteAfter, ModelWithOutputDir, ModelWithConfig, ModelW
         from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 
         output_dir = Path(out_dir) if out_dir is not None else self.output_dir
+        output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
         context = self.get_html_details_context(static_export_dir=output_dir)
         rendered_html = render_to_string("core/snapshot.html", context)
         atomic_write(str(output_dir / CONSTANTS.HTML_INDEX_FILENAME), rendered_html)
diff --git a/archivebox/templates/core/snapshot.html b/archivebox/templates/core/snapshot.html
index 8e88ac20..d48344a2 100644
--- a/archivebox/templates/core/snapshot.html
+++ b/archivebox/templates/core/snapshot.html
@@ -1515,7 +1515,9 @@
                     <div class="snapshot-empty-actions">
                         <button type="button" id="snapshot-empty-refresh" class="snapshot-empty-btn">🔄 Refresh page</button>
                         <a href="{{ url }}" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="snapshot-empty-btn">🌐 Open original URL</a>
+                        {% if not STATIC_EXPORT %}
                         <a href="{% admin_base_url %}/admin/core/snapshot/{{ snapshot_id }}/change/" class="snapshot-empty-btn">✏️ Edit in admin</a>
+                        {% endif %}
                     </div>
                 </div>
             </div>
diff --git a/archivebox/tests/test_cli_list.py b/archivebox/tests/test_cli_list.py
index fdf261ae..d5ecc440 100644
--- a/archivebox/tests/test_cli_list.py
+++ b/archivebox/tests/test_cli_list.py
@@ -20,6 +20,26 @@ from archivebox.tests.test_orm_helpers import use_archivebox_db
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db(transaction=True)
 
 
+def test_static_export_creates_detail_page_for_unarchived_snapshot(snapshot):
+    from archivebox.config import CONSTANTS
+
+    snapshot_dir = Path(snapshot.output_dir)
+    assert snapshot_dir.is_dir()
+    assert not any(snapshot_dir.iterdir())
+    snapshot_dir.rmdir()
+    assert not snapshot_dir.exists()
+
+    html = Snapshot.objects.filter(pk=snapshot.pk).to_html(with_headers=True)
+
+    static_path = snapshot_dir.relative_to(CONSTANTS.DATA_DIR).as_posix()
+    detail_path = snapshot_dir / "index.html"
+    assert f"./{static_path}/index.html" in html
+    assert detail_path.exists()
+    detail_html = detail_path.read_text()
+    assert f"/snapshot/{snapshot.id.hex}" not in detail_html
+    assert "/admin/" not in detail_html
+
+
 def test_static_exports_use_filesystem_paths_not_live_django_routes(snapshot):
     from archivebox.config import CONSTANTS
     from archivebox.core.models import ArchiveResult
diff --git a/archivebox/tests/test_crawl_runner.py b/archivebox/tests/test_crawl_runner.py
index 42f04f50..fd3d99a8 100644
--- a/archivebox/tests/test_crawl_runner.py
+++ b/archivebox/tests/test_crawl_runner.py
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ pytestmark = pytest.mark.django_db
 def test_crawl_runner_creates_progress_reporter_without_a_tty(crawl):
     from archivebox.services.runner import CrawlRunner
 
-    assert not sys.stdout.isatty()
-    assert not sys.stderr.isatty()
     runner = CrawlRunner(crawl)
     runner.load_run_state()