diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccb95ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+RewriteEngine On
+
+RewriteRule ^public(/.*)?$ - [L]
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 244b68c..26a4006 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@
   - `Controllers/` : contrôleurs MVC backend (ancien `controllers/`)
   - `Models/` : modèles MVC backend (ancien `models/`)
   - `Thirds/` : dépendances tierces backend (ancien `third/`)
+
+Note: configure the web server at the repository root; requests to `/` are routed to `public/` via `.htaccess`.
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b140ab4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/index.php
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+<?php
+
+require __DIR__ . '/public/index.php';
diff --git a/src/Core/config.example.php b/src/Core/config.example.php
index bed483e..b6daf77 100755
--- a/src/Core/config.example.php
+++ b/src/Core/config.example.php
@@ -24,12 +24,15 @@ $config['public_folder'] = $config['abs_root_folder']."public/";
 // This is the relative folder to the root of the website from the DocumentRoot (can also be called subfolder)
 $document_root = rtrim(realpath($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
 $public_root = rtrim(realpath($config['public_folder']), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
+$abs_root = rtrim(realpath($config['abs_root_folder']), DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
 $config['rel_root_folder'] = "";
-if ($document_root && $public_root && strpos($public_root, $document_root) === 0) {
+if ($document_root && $abs_root && $document_root === $abs_root) {
+	$config['rel_root_folder'] = "/";
+} elseif ($document_root && $public_root && strpos($public_root, $document_root) === 0) {
 	$config['rel_root_folder'] = substr($public_root, strlen($document_root));
 }
 $config['web_root_folder']="https://kabano.test/";
-if($config['rel_root_folder']=="") {
+if($config['rel_root_folder']=="" || $config['rel_root_folder']=="/") {
 	$config['rel_root_folder']="/";
 } else {
 	$config['rel_root_folder'] = "/".trim($config['rel_root_folder'],"/")."/";