diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 3daa27a2d..cbbde16ed 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('libsoup', 'c',
         version: '2.63.92',
-        meson_version : '>=0.43',
+        meson_version : '>=0.47',
         license : 'LGPL2',
         default_options : 'c_std=c89')
 
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
index c32a64c58..3ddd97075 100644
--- a/tests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -57,23 +57,21 @@ if have_apache
     input : 'httpd.conf.in',
     configuration : cdata)
 
-  # There is not copy_file() in Meson and this is official workaround as per
-  # https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/860
   configure_file(input : 'htdigest',
     output : 'htdigest',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
   configure_file(input : 'htpasswd',
     output : 'htpasswd',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
   configure_file(input : 'index.txt',
     output : 'index.txt',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
   configure_file(input : 'test-cert.pem',
     output : 'test-cert.pem',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
   configure_file(input : 'test-key.pem',
     output : 'test-key.pem',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
 endif
 
 if have_php
@@ -92,7 +90,7 @@ if have_php_xmlrpc
 
   configure_file(input : 'xmlrpc-server.php',
     output : 'xmlrpc-server.php',
-    configuration : configuration_data())
+    copy : true)
 endif
 
 env = environment()