diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 08fe4ae9c..117061f12 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
    patchfiles and so copy all patches (#105)
  - moved the Download-Mirror file form src to Download/Mirror (so it does not
    get deleted during a Cleanup ...) (#46)
+ - changed apache's default datadir from /opt/apache/share to
+   /var/opt/apache/ (#40)
 
 *) 2003-08-18 (2.0.0-camp - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
diff --git a/package/rene/apache/apache.conf b/package/rene/apache/apache.conf
index 7b47f61eb..387927eb2 100644
--- a/package/rene/apache/apache.conf
+++ b/package/rene/apache/apache.conf
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ fi
 set_confopt
 
 if [ $pkg = "apache" ] ; then
-	var_append extraconfopt " " "--enable-dav \
---enable-cache --enable-disk-cache --enable-ssl --enable-proxy \
+	# or maybe www would be nicer than lib ?!? ...
+	var_append extraconfopt " " "--datadir=$localstatedir/lib \
+--enable-dav --enable-cache --enable-disk-cache --enable-ssl --enable-proxy \
 --enable-speling --enable-rewrite --enable-so"
 
 	hook_add postmake 3 "install_init httpd $confdir/httpd.init"