diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 51267161..1ab9d4ff 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ cd /tmp/build
 ./bin/compile /tmp/build /tmp/cache
 
 Run:
+mv /tmp/cache /tmp/was-cache 
 cd /tmp/build
-export CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=ccl
 setup/launch -b -l setup/run.lisp
 
diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
index 27d18721..e976f150 100755
--- a/bin/compile
+++ b/bin/compile
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ CCL_PACKAGE="http://${S3_BUCKET}.s3.amazonaws.com/ccl-1.7.tgz"
 # parse and derive params
 BUILD_DIR=$1
 CACHE_DIR=$2
-# CACHE_QUICKLISP_DIR="$CACHE_DIR/quicklisp/" 
-# BUILD_QUICKLISP_DIR="$BUILD_DIR/quicklisp/"
 
 CCL_DIR="$CACHE_DIR/ccl"
 
@@ -75,6 +73,6 @@ $CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY/scripts/ccl64 -l "$BUILD_DIR/setup/compile.lisp"
 echo "dependencies installed" | indent
   
 # copy quicklisp to slug
-if [ -d $CACHE_QUICKLISP_DIR ]; then
-    cp -r $CACHE_QUICKLISP_DIR $BUILD_QUICKLISP_DIR
+if [ -d $CACHE_DIR/quicklisp ]; then
+    cp -r $CACHE_DIR/quicklisp $BUILD_DIR/quicklisp
 fi
diff --git a/setup/launch b/setup/launch
index 1cad5d32..b8a2c089 100755
--- a/setup/launch
+++ b/setup/launch
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 # based on ccl/scripts/ccl64, which is too stupid to figure out where it is being run from or whether it is 32/64 bit
+# sets -no-init flag
 
 export CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY=$PWD/ccl
 
@@ -31,4 +32,4 @@ if [ -z "$OPENMCL_KERNEL" ]; then
     esac
 fi
 
-exec ${CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY}/${OPENMCL_KERNEL} "$@"
+exec ${CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY}/${OPENMCL_KERNEL} --no-init "$@"
diff --git a/setup/setup.lisp b/setup/setup.lisp
index 7f689400..0a0db03b 100644
--- a/setup/setup.lisp
+++ b/setup/setup.lisp
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 (defvar *quicklisp-home* 
   (append (or *cache-dir* *app-dir*)  '("quicklisp")))
 
-(defvar asdf::*user-cache* (append *quicklisp-home* '(".cache" "common-lisp" :implementation)))
+(setq asdf::*user-cache* (append *quicklisp-home* '(".cache" "common-lisp" :implementation)))
 
 (if (probe-file (make-pathname :directory *quicklisp-home* :defaults "setup.lisp"))
     (progn 
diff --git a/src/hello-world.lisp b/src/hello-world.lisp
index f29952f1..d150dd58 100644
--- a/src/hello-world.lisp
+++ b/src/hello-world.lisp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 (in-package :wu)
 
-(publish :path "/hello"
+(publish :path "/"
 	 :function #'(lambda (req ent)
 		       (with-http-response-and-body (req ent)
 			 (html