diff --git a/doc/manual/installation.xml b/doc/manual/installation.xml
index ed5348829c8b..8bde2f6e0530 100644
--- a/doc/manual/installation.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/installation.xml
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ packages.</para>
 some reason this is not the case, just do
 
 <screen>
-$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable
+$ nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable
 </screen>
 
 You can then upgrade NixOS to the latest version in the channel by
diff --git a/maintainers/scripts/ec2/create-ebs-amis.py b/maintainers/scripts/ec2/create-ebs-amis.py
index 939bd30942dc..4dfaa9f3b129 100755
--- a/maintainers/scripts/ec2/create-ebs-amis.py
+++ b/maintainers/scripts/ec2/create-ebs-amis.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ m.run_command("mkdir -p /mnt")
 m.run_command("mount {0} /mnt".format(device))
 m.run_command("touch /mnt/.ebs")
 m.run_command("mkdir -p /mnt/etc/nixos")
-m.run_command("nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable")
+m.run_command("nix-channel --add http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable")
 m.run_command("nix-channel --update")
 m.run_command("nixos-rebuild switch")
 version = m.run_command("nixos-version", capture_stdout=True).replace('"', '').rstrip()
diff --git a/modules/installer/tools/tools.nix b/modules/installer/tools/tools.nix
index d7b8766143ac..c3bbfd953f39 100644
--- a/modules/installer/tools/tools.nix
+++ b/modules/installer/tools/tools.nix
@@ -84,8 +84,9 @@ in
 {
   options = {
 
+    # FIXME: remove this option once we're using Nix 1.2.
     installer.nixosURL = pkgs.lib.mkOption {
-      default = http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable;
+      default = http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable;
       example = http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/nixos-0.1pre1234;
       description = ''
         URL of the Nixpkgs distribution to use when building the
@@ -93,11 +94,12 @@ in
       '';
     };
 
+    # FIXME: idem.
     installer.manifests = pkgs.lib.mkOption {
-      default = [ http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable/MANIFEST ];
+      default = [ http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable/MANIFEST ];
       example =
-        [ http://nixos.org/releases/nixpkgs/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST
-          http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-stable/MANIFEST
+        [ http://nixos.org/channels/nixpkgs-unstable/MANIFEST
+          http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-stable/MANIFEST
         ];
       description = ''
         URLs of manifests to be downloaded when you run
diff --git a/modules/programs/bash/profile.sh b/modules/programs/bash/profile.sh
index 1eef2a9e84a8..5393a88d5ffe 100644
--- a/modules/programs/bash/profile.sh
+++ b/modules/programs/bash/profile.sh
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ fi
 
 # Subscribe the root user to the NixOS channel by default.
 if [ "$USER" = root -a ! -e $HOME/.nix-channels ]; then
-    echo "http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable nixos" > $HOME/.nix-channels
+    echo "http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos" > $HOME/.nix-channels
 fi
 
 # Create the per-user garbage collector roots directory.
diff --git a/tests/installer.nix b/tests/installer.nix
index ad126c128b59..8b695ae5a180 100644
--- a/tests/installer.nix
+++ b/tests/installer.nix
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ let
     { services.httpd.enable = true;
       services.httpd.adminAddr = "foo@example.org";
       services.httpd.servedDirs = singleton
-        { urlPath = "/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable";
+        { urlPath = "/channels/nixos-unstable";
           dir = "/tmp/channel";
         };
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ let
         $webserver->succeed("mkdir /tmp/channel");
         $webserver->succeed(
             "nix-push file:///tmp/channel " .
-            "http://nixos.org/releases/nixos/channels/nixos-unstable " .
+            "http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable " .
             "file:///tmp/channel/MANIFEST ${toString channelContents} >&2");
       ''}