diff --git a/manifests/api.pp b/manifests/api.pp
index 515a48e6..9b8ff8cc 100644
--- a/manifests/api.pp
+++ b/manifests/api.pp
@@ -115,9 +115,9 @@ class heat::api (
     }
 
     # we need to make sure heat-api/eventlet is stopped before trying to start apache
-    Service['heat-api'] -> Service[$::apache::params::service_name]
+    Service['heat-api'] -> Service[$service_name]
     # the apache service is untagged so add it to the service section manually
-    Anchor['heat::service::begin'] ~> Service[$::apache::params::service_name]
+    Anchor['heat::service::begin'] ~> Service[$service_name]
   } else {
     fail("Invalid service_name. Either heat-api/openstack-heat-api for \
 running as a standalone service, or httpd for being run by a httpd server")
diff --git a/manifests/api_cfn.pp b/manifests/api_cfn.pp
index 69214051..eb67b725 100644
--- a/manifests/api_cfn.pp
+++ b/manifests/api_cfn.pp
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ class heat::api_cfn (
     }
 
     # we need to make sure heat-api-cfn/eventlet is stopped before trying to start apache
-    Service['heat-api-cfn'] -> Service[$::apache::params::service_name]
+    Service['heat-api-cfn'] -> Service[$service_name]
     # the apache service is untagged so add it to the service section manually
-    Anchor['heat::service::begin'] ~> Service[$::apache::params::service_name]
+    Anchor['heat::service::begin'] ~> Service[$service_name]
   } else {
     fail("Invalid service_name. Either heat-api-cfn/openstack-heat-api-cfn for \
 running as a standalone service, or httpd for being run by a httpd server")