I brought this up briefly on the list but I thought I would submit a formal issue for it. I think _rewriteBase should be automatically prepended to the routes. On applications that would be distributed via download it would be easier to define generic routes. An application with routes like: /user/:id /news/:action/:id would never require a base path to be set in a config file or anything, as opposed to {$settings->basePath}/user/:id {$settings->basePath}/news/:action/:id You'd have to do a few checks for beginning slashes, but I think it would be a neat change coupled with the automatic _rewriteBase detection that was recently added.