diff --git a/src/playbooks/deploy/deploy.yaml b/src/playbooks/deploy/deploy.yaml
index acf37dc7..93800929 100644
--- a/src/playbooks/deploy/deploy.yaml
+++ b/src/playbooks/deploy/deploy.yaml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
     foreman_client_certificate: "{{ client_certificate }}"
     foreman_oauth_consumer_key: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
     foreman_oauth_consumer_secret: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456
+    foreman_listen_stream: /run/httpd.foreman.sock
+    foreman_url: "https://{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
+    httpd_foreman_backend: "unix://{{ foreman_listen_stream }}|http://%{HTTP_HOST}/"
     httpd_server_ca_certificate: "{{ server_ca_certificate }}"
     httpd_client_ca_certificate: "{{ client_ca_certificate }}"
     httpd_server_certificate: "{{ server_certificate }}"
diff --git a/src/roles/foreman/defaults/main.yaml b/src/roles/foreman/defaults/main.yaml
index 8868b2a0..b6582c5b 100644
--- a/src/roles/foreman/defaults/main.yaml
+++ b/src/roles/foreman/defaults/main.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ---
 foreman_container_image: "quay.io/evgeni/foreman-rpm"
 foreman_container_tag: "nightly"
+foreman_listen_stream: localhost:3000
+foreman_url: "http://{{ foreman_listen_stream }}"
 
 foreman_database_name: foreman
 foreman_database_user: foreman
diff --git a/src/roles/foreman/tasks/main.yaml b/src/roles/foreman/tasks/main.yaml
index c38c9a66..675b9979 100644
--- a/src/roles/foreman/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/src/roles/foreman/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
     name: foreman-client-key
     path: "{{ foreman_client_key }}"
 
+- name: Deploy Foreman socket
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: foreman.socket.j2
+    dest: /etc/systemd/system/foreman.socket
+    mode: '0644'
+
 - name: Deploy Foreman Container
   containers.podman.podman_container:
     name: "foreman"
@@ -64,6 +70,8 @@
       SEED_ADMIN_PASSWORD: changeme
     quadlet_options:
       - |
+        [Unit]
+        Requires=foreman.socket
         [Install]
         WantedBy=default.target
 
@@ -119,7 +127,8 @@
 
 - name: Wait for Foreman service to be accessible
   ansible.builtin.uri:
-    url: 'http://{{ ansible_hostname }}:3000/api/v2/ping'
+    url: '{{ foreman_url }}/api/v2/ping'
+    ca_path: '{{ ca_certificate }}'
   until: foreman_status.status == 200
   retries: 60
   delay: 5
@@ -137,7 +146,8 @@
 
 - name: Wait for Foreman tasks to be ready
   ansible.builtin.uri:
-    url: 'http://{{ ansible_hostname }}:3000/api/v2/ping'
+    url: '{{ foreman_url }}/api/v2/ping'
+    ca_path: '{{ ca_certificate }}'
   until: foreman_tasks_status.json['results']['katello']['services']['foreman_tasks']['status'] == 'ok'
   retries: 60
   delay: 5
@@ -149,6 +159,9 @@
   theforeman.foreman.smart_proxy:
     name: "{{ ansible_fqdn }}"
     url: "https://{{ ansible_fqdn }}:9090"
-    server_url: "http://{{ ansible_fqdn }}:3000"
+    server_url: "{{ foreman_url }}"
+    # TODO: requires https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/commit/03298a74e6096c370a932de37aa62dbece3f452f
+    validate_certs: false
+    #ca_path: '{{ ca_certificate }}'
     username: admin
     password: changeme
diff --git a/src/roles/foreman/templates/foreman.socket.j2 b/src/roles/foreman/templates/foreman.socket.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2b1d2dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/roles/foreman/templates/foreman.socket.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Foreman socket
+
+[Socket]
+ListenStream={{ foreman_listen_stream }}
+SocketUser=apache
+SocketMode=0600
+
+NoDelay=false
+ReusePort=true
+Backlog=1024
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=sockets.target
diff --git a/src/roles/foreman/templates/settings.yaml.j2 b/src/roles/foreman/templates/settings.yaml.j2
index 17bad384..d39f7941 100644
--- a/src/roles/foreman/templates/settings.yaml.j2
+++ b/src/roles/foreman/templates/settings.yaml.j2
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ---
+:foreman_url: {{ foreman_url }}
+
 :ssl_certificate: /etc/foreman/client_cert.pem
 :ssl_ca_file: /etc/foreman/katello-default-ca.crt
 :ssl_priv_key: /etc/foreman/client_key.pem
diff --git a/src/roles/foreman_proxy/templates/settings.yaml.j2 b/src/roles/foreman_proxy/templates/settings.yaml.j2
index 5cdf0667..01d02ed3 100644
--- a/src/roles/foreman_proxy/templates/settings.yaml.j2
+++ b/src/roles/foreman_proxy/templates/settings.yaml.j2
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 :trusted_hosts:
   - {{ ansible_fqdn }}
 
-:foreman_url: http://{{ ansible_fqdn }}:3000
+:foreman_url: {{ foreman_url }}
 
 :foreman_ssl_ca: /etc/foreman-proxy/foreman_ssl_ca.pem
 :foreman_ssl_cert: /etc/foreman-proxy/foreman_ssl_cert.pem
diff --git a/src/roles/httpd/defaults/main.yml b/src/roles/httpd/defaults/main.yml
index 93399472..8361c753 100644
--- a/src/roles/httpd/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/src/roles/httpd/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 httpd_ssl_dir: /etc/pki/httpd
 httpd_pulp_api_backend: http://localhost:24817
 httpd_pulp_content_backend: http://localhost:24816
-httpd_foreman_backend: http://localhost:3000
+httpd_foreman_backend: http://localhost:3000/
diff --git a/src/roles/httpd/tasks/main.yml b/src/roles/httpd/tasks/main.yml
index 727eff02..82d3bcb4 100644
--- a/src/roles/httpd/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/src/roles/httpd/tasks/main.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@
     state: true
     persistent: true
 
+# TODO: probably not the right boolean
+- name: Set daemons_enable_cluster_mode so Apache can connect to unix sockets
+  ansible.posix.seboolean:
+    name: daemons_enable_cluster_mode
+    state: true
+    persistent: true
+
 - name: Disable welcome page
   ansible.builtin.file:
     path: /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf
diff --git a/src/roles/httpd/templates/foreman-ssl-vhost.conf.j2 b/src/roles/httpd/templates/foreman-ssl-vhost.conf.j2
index 6b972413..5df92d02 100644
--- a/src/roles/httpd/templates/foreman-ssl-vhost.conf.j2
+++ b/src/roles/httpd/templates/foreman-ssl-vhost.conf.j2
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@
   ProxyPass /pulp !
   ProxyPass /icons !
   ProxyPass /server-status !
-  ProxyPass / {{ httpd_foreman_backend }}/ retry=0 timeout=900
-  ProxyPassReverse / {{ httpd_foreman_backend }}/
+  ProxyPass / {{ httpd_foreman_backend }} retry=0 timeout=900
+  ProxyPassReverse / {{ httpd_foreman_backend }}
 
   AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
 </VirtualHost>