diff --git a/build.properties.default b/build.properties.default
index 123708b..a0515e8 100644
--- a/build.properties.default
+++ b/build.properties.default
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 # Do not pass -deprecation (-Xlint:deprecation) flag to javac
 compile.deprecation=false
 
-base-apache.loc.1=https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=
+base-apache.loc.1=http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?action=download&filename=
 base-apache.loc.2=https://archive.apache.org/dist
 base-commons.loc.1=${base-apache.loc.1}/commons
 base-commons.loc.2=${base-apache.loc.2}/commons
diff --git a/webapps/docs/changelog.xml b/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
index a5c0990..36b569d 100644
--- a/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
+++ b/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@
       </fix>
     </changelog>
   </subsection>
+  <subsection name="Other">
+    <changelog>
+      <fix>
+        Switch the build script to use http for downloads from an ASF mirror
+        using the closer.lua script to avoid failures due to HTTPS to HTTP
+        redirects. (rjung)
+      </fix>
+    </changelog>
+  </subsection>
 </section>
 <section name="Tomcat 8.0.53 (violetagg)" rtext="2018-07-05">
   <subsection name="Catalina">