diff --git a/lib/logstash/web/public/js/logstash.js b/lib/logstash/web/public/js/logstash.js
index 7d4c5814049..655cf2c2e77 100644
--- a/lib/logstash/web/public/js/logstash.js
+++ b/lib/logstash/web/public/js/logstash.js
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@
       /* Check for history.pushState */
 
       var display_query = query.replace("<", "&lt;").replace(">", "&gt;")
-      $("#querystatus, #results h1").html("Loading query '" + display_query + "' (offset:" + logstash.params.offset + ", count:" + logstash.params.count + ") <img class='throbber' src='/media/throbber.gif'>")
+      $("#querystatus, #results h1").html("Loading query '" + display_query + "' (offset:" + logstash.params.offset + ", count:" + logstash.params.count + ") <img class='throbber' src='media/throbber.gif'>")
       //console.log(logstash.params)
       logstash.params.q = query;
 
       /* Load the search results */
-      $("#results").load("/api/search?format=html", logstash.params,
+      $("#results").load("api/search?format=html", logstash.params,
         function(response, status, xhr) {
           if (status == "error") {
             /* We still return HTML on error, it's just an error message */
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
          * This won't likely survive 1.0, but it's fun for now... 
          * TODO(sissel): Replace with a 'loading' or something icon. */
 
-        var throbber = $("<center><img src='/media/throbber.gif'><center>")
+        var throbber = $("<center><img src='media/throbber.gif'><center>")
         throbber.attr("id", "throbber")
         throbber.css("margin", "-100px");
         $("#visual #throbber").remove();
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
         tries = 4; /* default tries */
       }
 
-      jQuery.getJSON("/api/histogram", logstash.params, function(histogram, text, jqxhr) {
+      jQuery.getJSON("api/histogram", logstash.params, function(histogram, text, jqxhr) {
         /* Load the data into the graph */
         var flot_data = [];
         // histogram is an array of { "key": ..., "count": ... }
diff --git a/lib/logstash/web/server.rb b/lib/logstash/web/server.rb
index 4cf9605f8fe..3d75859129f 100755
--- a/lib/logstash/web/server.rb
+++ b/lib/logstash/web/server.rb
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def initialize(settings)
   end # /style.css
 
   get '/' do
-    redirect "/search"
+    redirect "search"
   end # '/'
 
   get '/*' do
diff --git a/lib/logstash/web/views/header.haml b/lib/logstash/web/views/header.haml
index 29cc922ac6d..f758cb7c2d2 100644
--- a/lib/logstash/web/views/header.haml
+++ b/lib/logstash/web/views/header.haml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .logo
   logstash.
 .search
-  %form.search{ :action => "/search" }
+  %form.search{ :action => "search" }
     %label{ :for => "q" } Query:
     %input.query{ :id => "query", :type => "text", :name => "q", :value => params[:q],
                   :size => 60 }
diff --git a/lib/logstash/web/views/layout.haml b/lib/logstash/web/views/layout.haml
index 062f39ef5e0..246ec9c4348 100755
--- a/lib/logstash/web/views/layout.haml
+++ b/lib/logstash/web/views/layout.haml
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 
   %head
     %title= @title || "logstash" 
-    %link{ :rel => "stylesheet", :href => "/style.css", :type => "text/css" }
-    %link{ :rel => "stylesheet", :href => "/css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css", :type => "text/css" }
-    %script{ :src => "/js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
-    %script{ :src => "/js/jquery-ui-1.8.13.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
+    %link{ :rel => "stylesheet", :href => "style.css", :type => "text/css" }
+    %link{ :rel => "stylesheet", :href => "css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.css", :type => "text/css" }
+    %script{ :src => "js/jquery-1.6.1.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
+    %script{ :src => "js/jquery-ui-1.8.13.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
     %script{ :src => "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.5/jquery-ui.min.js",
            :type => "text/javascript" }
     %script{ :src => "js/jquery.tmpl.min.js", :type => "text/javascript" }
diff --git a/lib/logstash/web/views/main/index.haml b/lib/logstash/web/views/main/index.haml
index 0c04e4ddd1e..3ef69473a62 100644
--- a/lib/logstash/web/views/main/index.haml
+++ b/lib/logstash/web/views/main/index.haml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-%form.search{ :action => "/search" }
+%form.search{ :action => "search" }
   %label{ :for => "q" }
   %input.query{ :type => "text", :name => "q" }
   %input{ :type => "submit" }