diff --git a/install.php b/install.php
index b3aacfa9..3ec6ea5c 100644
--- a/install.php
+++ b/install.php
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ define('PATH_ABSTRACT',		PATH_KERNEL.'abstract'.DS);
 define('DOMAIN',		$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
 
 // HTML PATHs
-$base = empty( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] ) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
-$base = dirname($base);
+//$base = empty( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] ) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
+//$base = dirname($base);
+$base = empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ? dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) : dirname($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
 
 if($base!=DS) {
 	$base = $base.'/';
diff --git a/kernel/boot/init.php b/kernel/boot/init.php
index 030db91f..20684580 100644
--- a/kernel/boot/init.php
+++ b/kernel/boot/init.php
@@ -153,12 +153,23 @@ $Url 		= new Url();
 $Parsedown 	= new ParsedownExtra();
 $Security	= new Security();
 
-// HTML PATHs
-$base = empty( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] ) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
-$base = dirname($base);
+// HTML PATHS
+// The user can define the base URL.
+// Left empty if you want to Bludit try to detect the base URL.
+$base = '';
+
+if( !empty($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) && !empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) && empty($base) ) {
+	$base = str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
+	$base = dirname($base);
+}
+elseif( empty($base) ) {
+	$base = empty( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] ) ? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] : $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'];
+	$base = dirname($base);
+}
 
 if($base!=DS) {
-	$base = $base.'/';
+	$base = trim($base, '/');
+	$base = '/'.$base.'/';
 }
 else {
 	// Workaround for Windows Web Servers