diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 1c16716864e..4a934ee4724 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -641,6 +641,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3803. Fix broken build of raid contrib due to HDFS-2864.
     (Ravi Prakash via suresh)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3791. can't build site in hadoop-yarn-server-common.
+    (mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
index 116eadb477d..fefedea5404 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/pom.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,17 @@
               <goal>run</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
+          <execution>
+            <phase>pre-site</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>run</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <tasks>
+                <copy file="src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml" todir="src/site/resources"/>
+              </tasks>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
index ebaf899f7b1..e05e6ddbb36 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/pom.xml
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@
             </goals>
             <configuration>
               <tasks>
-                <copy file="src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml" todir="src/site/resources"/>
                 <copy file="src/main/xsl/configuration.xsl" todir="src/site/resources"/>
               </tasks>
             </configuration>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/src/site/site.xml b/hadoop-project/src/site/site.xml
index df7afbb05f8..ce5a4e7320a 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/src/site/site.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/src/site/site.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <menu name="Configuration" inherit="top">
       <item name="core-default.xml" href="hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/core-default.xml"/>
       <item name="hdfs-default.xml" href="hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/hdfs-default.xml"/>
-      <item name="yarn-default.xml" href="hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/yarn-default.xml"/>
+      <item name="yarn-default.xml" href="hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/resources/yarn-default.xml"/>
       <item name="mapred-default.xml" href="hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/mapred-default.xml"/>
       <item name="Deprecated Properties" href="hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/DeprecatedProperties.html"/>
     </menu>