diff --git a/dev/.rat-excludes b/dev/.rat-excludes
index f38fd7e2012a5..b82cb7078c9f3 100644
--- a/dev/.rat-excludes
+++ b/dev/.rat-excludes
@@ -140,3 +140,4 @@ ui-test/package.json
 ui-test/package-lock.json
 core/src/main/resources/org/apache/spark/ui/static/package.json
 .*\.har
+.nojekyll