diff --git a/build.properties.default b/build.properties.default
index 45d65d9388..5291659b78 100644
--- a/build.properties.default
+++ b/build.properties.default
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Maven2 Repository Locations (you can override these in "build.properties" to point to a local proxy, e.g. Nexus)
 artifact.remoteRepository.central:     http://repo1.maven.org/maven2
-artifact.remoteRepository.apache:      https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases
+artifact.remoteRepository.apache:      http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
 
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 64872f81e6..8ea8909ae7 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -240,6 +240,8 @@
         <artifact:dependencies pathId="wikitext.classpath">
             <dependency groupId="com.datastax.wikitext" artifactId="wikitext-core-ant" version="1.3"/>
             <dependency groupId="org.fusesource.wikitext" artifactId="textile-core" version="1.3"/>
+            <remoteRepository refid="central"/>
+            <remoteRepository refid="apache"/>
         </artifact:dependencies>
         <taskdef classpathref="wikitext.classpath" resource="wikitexttasks.properties" />
         <wikitext-to-html markupLanguage="Textile">