diff --git a/libs/daux.php b/libs/daux.php
index f07fe8b..305d6dd 100644
--- a/libs/daux.php
+++ b/libs/daux.php
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 
         public function handle_request($url, $query = array()) {
             if ($this->error) return $this->error_page;
-            if (!$this->params['clean_urls']) $this->params['base_page'] .= 'index.php?request=';
-            $request = DauxHelper::get_request_from_url($url, $this->base_url);
+            if (!$this->params['clean_urls']) $this->params['base_page'] .= 'index.php/';
+            $request = DauxHelper::get_request();
             $request = urldecode($request);
             $request_type = isset($query['method']) ? $query['method'] : '';
             switch ($request_type) {
@@ -74,12 +74,10 @@
             }
             $this->mode = Daux::LIVE_MODE;
             $this->host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
-            //Fixes for pages within pages
-            //$this->base_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
-            $this->base_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
-            //$this->base_url = substr($this->base_url, 0, strrpos($this->base_url, '/'));
-            //adding this replace, which replaces the /index.php with nothing seems to resolve the issue with serving static content
-            $this->base_url = str_replace("/index.php", "", $this->base_url);
+            $this->base_url = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
+            $t = strrpos($this->base_url, '/index.php');
+            if ($t != FALSE) $this->base_url = substr($this->base_url, 0, $t);
+            if (substr($this->base_url, -1) !== '/') $this->base_url .= '/';
         }
 
         private function load_global_config($global_config_file) {
@@ -206,7 +204,7 @@
                     $params['index_key'] = 'index';
                     $params['docs_path'] = $this->docs_path;
                     $protocol = '//';
-                    $params['base_url'] = $protocol . $this->base_url . '/';
+                    $params['base_url'] = $protocol . $this->base_url;
                     $params['base_page'] = $params['base_url'];
                     $params['host'] = $this->host;
                     $params['tree'] = $this->tree;
@@ -236,7 +234,7 @@
                     $params['docs_path'] = $this->docs_path;
                     $params['index_key'] = 'index';
                     $protocol = '//';
-                    $params['base_url'] = $protocol . $this->base_url . '/';
+                    $params['base_url'] = $protocol . $this->base_url;
                     $params['base_page'] = $params['base_url'];
                     $params['host'] = $this->host;
                     $params['tree'] = $this->tree;
diff --git a/libs/daux_helper.php b/libs/daux_helper.php
index 7a941b8..c330832 100644
--- a/libs/daux_helper.php
+++ b/libs/daux_helper.php
@@ -59,8 +59,10 @@
             return static::directory_tree_builder($dir, $ignore, $mode);
         }
 
+
+        //Depreciated
         public static function get_request_from_url($url, $base_url) {
-            $url = substr($url, strlen($base_url) + 1);
+            $url = substr($url, strlen($base_url));
             if (strpos($url, 'index.php') === 0) {
                 $request = (($i = strpos($url, 'request=')) !== false) ? $request = substr($url, $i + 8) : '';
                 if ($end = strpos($request, '&')) $request = substr($request, 0, $end);
@@ -72,6 +74,33 @@
             return $request;
         }
 
+
+
+        public static function get_request($prefix_slash = false)
+        {
+            if (isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'])) $uri = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
+            else if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) {
+                $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
+                if (strpos($uri, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) === 0) $uri = substr($uri, strlen($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']));
+                else if (strpos($uri, dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) === 0) $uri = substr($uri, strlen(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])));
+                if (strncmp($uri, '?/', 2) === 0) $uri = substr($uri, 2);
+                $parts = preg_split('#\?#i', $uri, 2);
+                $uri = $parts[0];
+                if (isset($parts[1])) {
+                    $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = $parts[1];
+                    parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $_GET);
+                } else {
+                    $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = '';
+                    $_GET = array();
+                }
+                $uri = parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_PATH);
+            }
+            else return false;
+            $uri = str_replace(array('//', '../'), '/', trim($uri, '/'));
+            if ($uri == "") $uri = "index";
+            return $uri;
+        }
+
         public static function configure_theme($theme, $base_url, $local_base, $theme_url, $mode = Daux::LIVE_MODE) {
             $name = static::pathinfo($theme); 
             if (is_file($theme)) {