diff --git a/contrib/simpletest/main.php b/contrib/simpletest/main.php
index 2793ec93..9240b258 100644
--- a/contrib/simpletest/main.php
+++ b/contrib/simpletest/main.php
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ define('ADMIN_PASS', "demo");
 
 class ShimmieWebTestCase extends WebTestCase {
 	protected function get_page($page) {
-		$this->get($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].'/'.make_link($page));
+		$url = "http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].get_base_href().'/'.make_link($page);
+		$url = str_replace("/./", "/", $url);
+		$this->get($url);
 	}
 	protected function log_in_as_user() {
         $this->get_page('post/list');