diff --git a/playbooks/roles/refstack/templates/refstack.vhost.j2 b/playbooks/roles/refstack/templates/refstack.vhost.j2
index cdbbc24ab7..6dec957502 100644
--- a/playbooks/roles/refstack/templates/refstack.vhost.j2
+++ b/playbooks/roles/refstack/templates/refstack.vhost.j2
@@ -40,6 +40,19 @@
   ProxyPass  / http://localhost:8000/ retry=0
   ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8000/
 
+  # Redirect all /api requests to the internal server's address for backward
+  # compatibility - previously the vhost configuration redirected all /api
+  # requests to a wsgi app which executed refstack to handle the request.
+  # Now the refstack server is containerized and the server is served by pecan
+  # where 'pecan serve' does the same as the wsgi app before plus it also
+  # serves the UI interface. This has caused that the resources previously
+  # found under /api/ are one level higher (omitting the /api part of the
+  # URLs).
+  # Example: <hostname>/api/v1/results is now at <hostname>/v1/results
+  <Location "/api/">
+    ProxyPass "http://localhost:8000/"
+  </Location>
+
   <Location "/robots.txt">
     ProxyPass !
   </Location>
diff --git a/testinfra/test_refstack.py b/testinfra/test_refstack.py
index b126f02d45..9fbb7f469b 100644
--- a/testinfra/test_refstack.py
+++ b/testinfra/test_refstack.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import time
 import urllib3
 
 
-testinfra_hosts = ['refstack01.openstack.org:8000']
+testinfra_hosts = ['refstack01.openstack.org']
 
 test_result_json = {
     "cpid": "9cddf99456964d7c90b98362e7175a12",
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ def test_refstack_container_running(host):
     assert out[0]["State"]["Status"] == "running"
     assert out[0]["RestartCount"] == 0
 
-def test_result_submission(host):
-    url = testinfra_hosts[0] + "/v1/results/"
+def test_refstack_result_submission(host):
+    url = "https://refstack01.openstack.org/v1/results/"
     headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json'}
     data = json.dumps(test_result_json)
-    http = urllib3.PoolManager()
+    http = urllib3.PoolManager(cert_reqs='CERT_NONE')
     resp = http.request('POST', url, body=data, headers=headers)
     assert resp.status == 201
diff --git a/zuul.d/system-config-run.yaml b/zuul.d/system-config-run.yaml
index 7b9eb5cc51..ef0837bc2f 100644
--- a/zuul.d/system-config-run.yaml
+++ b/zuul.d/system-config-run.yaml
@@ -909,6 +909,7 @@
     host-vars:
       refstack01.openstack.org:
         host_copy_output:
+          '/var/log/apache2/': logs
           '/var/lib/refstack/': logs
           '/var/refstack/': logs
     vars: