diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 88e3a1208..03506f397 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ ChangeLog
 dist
 *.egg
 ceilometer/versioninfo
+doc/source/api/*.rst
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 8b94b513e..d8b5960b5 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -6,3 +6,8 @@ cover-inclusive = true
 verbosity=2
 detailed-errors=1
 where=tests
+
+[build_sphinx]
+all_files = 1
+build-dir = doc/build
+source-dir = doc/source
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 03dc6b075..5f4682a0a 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ deps = pep8==1.1
 commands = pep8 --repeat --show-source ceilometer setup.py bin/ceilometer-agent-central bin/ceilometer-agent-compute bin/ceilometer-collector bin/ceilometer-api tests
 
 [testenv:venv]
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/tools/test-requires
+       -r{toxinidir}/tools/pip-requires
+	   sphinxcontrib-httpdomain
 commands = {posargs}
 
 [testenv:py26-folsom]