diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 80e2fb0..155302a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the following content::
     DEBUG = True
     SQLACHEMY_ECHO = DEBUG
 
-You can also set the `TESTING` flag to `True` so no mails are sent 
+You can also set the `TESTING` flag to `True` so no mails are sent
 (and no exception is raised) while you're on development mode.
 
 Deploy it
@@ -48,7 +48,12 @@ To deploy it, I'm using gunicorn and supervisord::
 Don't forget to set the right permission for your files !
 
 Also, create a `settings.py` file with the appropriate values if you need to
-use a different database for instance.
+use a different database for instance. You can also set `APPLICATION_ROOT` if
+you want to prefix your URLs to serve ihatemonney in the *folder* of a domain,
+e.g:
+
+    APPLICATION_ROOT='/budget'
+
 
 How about the REST API?
 =======================
@@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ As a developer
 --------------
 
 The best way to contribute code is to write it and to make a pull request on
-github. Please, think about updating and running the tests before asking for 
+github. Please, think about updating and running the tests before asking for
 a pull request as it will help us to maintain the code clean and running.
 
 To do so::
diff --git a/budget/run.py b/budget/run.py
index 845192d..dace736 100644
--- a/budget/run.py
+++ b/budget/run.py
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ from raven.contrib.flask import Sentry
 
 from web import main, db, mail
 from api import api
-
+from utils import ReverseProxied
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
 app.config.from_object("default_settings")
+app.wsgi_app = ReverseProxied(app.wsgi_app, app.config['APPLICATION_ROOT'])
 
 app.register_blueprint(main)
 app.register_blueprint(api)
diff --git a/budget/utils.py b/budget/utils.py
index 60337fb..9d63fc2 100644
--- a/budget/utils.py
+++ b/budget/utils.py
@@ -32,3 +32,32 @@ class Redirect303(HTTPException, RoutingException):
 
     def get_response(self, environ):
         return redirect(self.new_url, 303)
+
+
+class ReverseProxied(object):
+    '''
+    Wrap the application in this middleware and configure the
+    front-end server to add these headers, to let you quietly bind
+    this to a URL other than / and to an HTTP scheme that is
+    different than what is used locally.
+
+    Inspired from http://flask.pocoo.org/snippets/35/
+
+    :param app: the WSGI application
+    '''
+    def __init__(self, app, prefix):
+        self.app = app
+        self.prefix = prefix
+
+    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
+        script_name = self.prefix
+        if script_name:
+            environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = script_name
+            path_info = environ['PATH_INFO']
+            if path_info.startswith(script_name):
+                environ['PATH_INFO'] = path_info[len(script_name):]
+
+        scheme = environ.get('HTTP_X_SCHEME', '')
+        if scheme:
+            environ['wsgi.url_scheme'] = scheme
+        return self.app(environ, start_response)