diff --git a/application/core/Config.php b/application/core/Config.php
index 0968243..5f16b65 100644
--- a/application/core/Config.php
+++ b/application/core/Config.php
@@ -2,14 +2,13 @@
 
 class Config
 {
-    // this is public to allow better Unit Testing
     public static $config;
 
     public static function get($key)
     {
         if (!self::$config) {
 
-            $config_file = '../application/config/config.' . Environment::get() . '.php';
+            $config_file = __DIR__ . '/../config/config.' . Environment::get() . '.php';
 
             if (!file_exists($config_file)) {
                 return false;
diff --git a/public/index.php b/public/index.php
index fc3bc9b..5db82cc 100644
--- a/public/index.php
+++ b/public/index.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 // auto-loading the classes (currently only from application/libs) via Composer's PSR-4 auto-loader
 // later it might be useful to use a namespace here, but for now let's keep it as simple as possible
-require '../vendor/autoload.php';
+require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';
 
 // start our application
 new Application();
diff --git a/public/router.php b/public/router.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d3f78fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/router.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli-server') {
+    $filePath = __DIR__ . parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH);
+    if (is_file($filePath)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+
+$_GET['url'] = isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) ? ltrim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], '/') : '';
+require __DIR__ . '/index.php';
diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..426c9a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+php -S localhost:8000 -t ./public ./public/router.php