diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index f8ed31e93..5b2c94266 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -586,8 +586,8 @@ For users of JDK 1.5 at least version 1.6.2 of Ant is required.
   <!-- -->
   <target name="javadoc" depends="compile.checkstyle"
           description="Creates the javadoc html files">
-    <mkdir dir="${xdocs.dest}/api" />
-    <javadoc sourcepath="src/checkstyle" destdir="${xdocs.dest}/api"
+    <mkdir dir="${xdocs.dest}/apidocs" />
+    <javadoc sourcepath="src/checkstyle" destdir="${xdocs.dest}/apidocs"
              Windowtitle="Checkstyle API"
              classpathref="javadoc.classpath"
              Use="true"
diff --git a/src/xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml b/src/xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml
index e4dc44fb8..51ac72620 100644
--- a/src/xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
         <item name="Writing listeners" href="/writinglisteners.html"/>
       </item>
 
-      <item name="Javadoc" href="/api/index.html"/>
+      <item name="Javadoc" href="/apidocs/index.html"/>
     </menu>
 
     <menu name="SourceForge">