diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
index 8ccd69c..32a41b4 100644
--- a/.htaccess
+++ b/.htaccess
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-AddType application/x-web-app-manifest+json .webapp
-Addtype font/truetype .ttf
+<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
+    AddType application/x-web-app-manifest+json .webapp
+    Addtype font/truetype .ttf
+</ifmodule>
 
 <ifmodule mod_expires.c>
     ExpiresActive On
@@ -21,7 +23,6 @@ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.alltubedownload.net/$1 [R=301,L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
 
-Redirect permanent /api.php /video
-Redirect permanent /extractors.php /extractors
-
-AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/javascript font/truetype
+<ifmodule mod_filter.c>
+    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/html application/javascript font/truetype
+</ifmodule>
diff --git a/classes/Config.php b/classes/Config.php
index c57c848..a4ff93d 100644
--- a/classes/Config.php
+++ b/classes/Config.php
@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ class Config
      */
     public $curl_params = [];
 
+    /**
+     * Disable URL rewriting.
+     *
+     * @var bool
+     */
+    public $uglyUrls = false;
+
     /**
      * YAML config file path.
      *
diff --git a/classes/UglyRouter.php b/classes/UglyRouter.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c574480
--- /dev/null
+++ b/classes/UglyRouter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * UglyRouter class.
+ */
+
+namespace Alltube;
+
+use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;
+use Slim\Router;
+
+/**
+ * Extend Slim's router class in order to disable URL rewriting.
+ */
+class UglyRouter extends Router
+{
+    /**
+     * Dispatch router for HTTP request.
+     *
+     * @param ServerRequestInterface $request The current HTTP request object
+     *
+     * @return array
+     *
+     * @link   https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute/blob/master/src/Dispatcher.php
+     */
+    public function dispatch(ServerRequestInterface $request)
+    {
+        parse_str($request->getUri()->getQuery(), $args);
+        $uri = '/';
+        if (isset($args['page'])) {
+            $uri .= $args['page'];
+        }
+
+        return $this->createDispatcher()->dispatch(
+            $request->getMethod(),
+            $uri
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Build the path for a named route including the base path.
+     *
+     * @param string $name        Route name
+     * @param array  $data        Named argument replacement data
+     * @param array  $queryParams Optional query string parameters
+     *
+     * @throws \RuntimeException         If named route does not exist
+     * @throws \InvalidArgumentException If required data not provided
+     *
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public function pathFor($name, array $data = [], array $queryParams = [])
+    {
+        $url = str_replace('/', '/?page=', $this->relativePathFor($name, $data, $queryParams));
+
+        if ($this->basePath) {
+            $url = $this->basePath.$url;
+        }
+
+        return $url;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index eb602b7..3d91719 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "~2.7.0",
     "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.7.2",
     "ffmpeg/ffmpeg": "dev-release",
-    "rg3/youtube-dl": "~2016.12.22",
+    "rg3/youtube-dl": "~2017.01.10",
     "rudloff/rtmpdump-bin": "~2.3",
     "heroku/heroku-buildpack-php": "*"
   },
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
       "type": "package",
       "package": {
         "name": "rg3/youtube-dl",
-        "version": "2016.12.22",
+        "version": "2017.01.10",
         "dist": {
           "type": "zip",
-          "url": "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2016.12.22.zip"
+          "url": "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2017.01.10.zip"
         }
       }
     },
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 660f855..f9f96e3 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "91e14c843bc92c4d5af1ec7abcddf15a",
+    "content-hash": "16268cc5135ed42aedf75446f4e39bd7",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "aura/session",
@@ -1466,10 +1466,10 @@
         },
         {
             "name": "rg3/youtube-dl",
-            "version": "2016.12.22",
+            "version": "2017.01.10",
             "dist": {
                 "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2016.12.22.zip",
+                "url": "https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/archive/2017.01.10.zip",
                 "reference": null,
                 "shasum": null
             },
diff --git a/config.example.yml b/config.example.yml
index ca03f0b..7fb80ef 100644
--- a/config.example.yml
+++ b/config.example.yml
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ convert: false
 avconv: vendor/bin/ffmpeg
 rtmpdump: vendor/bin/rtmpdump
 curl: /usr/bin/curl
+uglyUrls: false
diff --git a/controllers/FrontController.php b/controllers/FrontController.php
index d42aebc..04734da 100644
--- a/controllers/FrontController.php
+++ b/controllers/FrontController.php
@@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ class FrontController
             $response,
             'index.tpl',
             [
-                'convert'     => $this->config->convert,
-                'class'       => 'index',
-                'description' => 'Easily download videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and other websites.',
+                'convert'      => $this->config->convert,
+                'uglyUrls'     => $this->config->uglyUrls,
+                'class'        => 'index',
+                'description'  => 'Easily download videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo and other websites.',
             ]
         );
     }
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 6db8190..fad0bb0 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 <?php
 
 require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
+use Alltube\Config;
 use Alltube\Controller\FrontController;
+use Alltube\UglyRouter;
 
 if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/index.php') !== false) {
     header('Location: '.str_ireplace('/index.php', '/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
@@ -10,6 +12,10 @@ if (isset($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) && strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/index.ph
 
 $app = new \Slim\App();
 $container = $app->getContainer();
+$config = Config::getInstance();
+if ($config->uglyUrls) {
+    $container['router'] = new UglyRouter();
+}
 $container['view'] = function ($c) {
     $view = new \Slim\Views\Smarty(__DIR__.'/templates/');
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ea7dba8..50a9ff1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "alltube",
   "description": "HTML GUI for youtube-dl",
-  "version": "0.7.1",
+  "version": "0.7.2-beta",
   "author": "Pierre Rudloff",
   "bugs": "https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube/issues",
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/templates/index.tpl b/templates/index.tpl
index 93f44eb..66eb1ab 100644
--- a/templates/index.tpl
+++ b/templates/index.tpl
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
         <input class="URLinput" type="url" name="url" id="url"
         required autofocus placeholder="http://example.com/video" />
         </span>
+        {if uglyUrls}
+            <input type="hidden" name="page" value="video" />
+        {/if}
         <input class="downloadBtn" type="submit" value="Download" /><br/>
         {if $convert}
             <div class="mp3">
diff --git a/templates/video.tpl b/templates/video.tpl
index 6f11251..678ffbd 100644
--- a/templates/video.tpl
+++ b/templates/video.tpl
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
     <h3><label for="format">Available formats:</label></h3>
     <form action="{path_for name="redirect"}">
         <input type="hidden" name="url" value="{$video->webpage_url}" />
+        {if uglyUrls}
+            <input type="hidden" name="page" value="redirect" />
+        {/if}
         <select name="format" id="format" class="formats monospace">
             <optgroup label="Generic formats">
                 <option value="best[protocol^=http]">
diff --git a/tests/UglyRouterTest.php b/tests/UglyRouterTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d211c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/UglyRouterTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * UglyRouterTest class.
+ */
+
+namespace Alltube\Test;
+
+use Alltube\UglyRouter;
+use Slim\Http\Environment;
+use Slim\Http\Headers;
+use Slim\Http\Request;
+use Slim\Http\Stream;
+use Slim\Http\Uri;
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for the UglyRouter class.
+ */
+class UglyRouterTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+    /**
+     * UglyRouter instance.
+     *
+     * @var UglyRouter
+     */
+    private $router;
+
+    /**
+     * Prepare tests.
+     */
+    protected function setUp()
+    {
+        $this->router = new UglyRouter();
+        $this->router->map(['GET'], '/foo', 'print')->setName('foo');
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test the dispatch() function.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function testDispatch()
+    {
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            [1, 'route0', []],
+            $this->router->dispatch(
+                new Request(
+                    'GET',
+                    Uri::createFromString('http://example.com/?page=foo'),
+                    Headers::createFromEnvironment(new Environment()),
+                    [],
+                    [],
+                    new Stream(fopen('php://temp', 'r'))
+                )
+            )
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test the pathFor() function.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function testPathFor()
+    {
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            '/?page=foo',
+            $this->router->pathFor('foo', [], [])
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test the pathFor() function with a base path.
+     *
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function testPathForWithBasePath()
+    {
+        $this->router->setBasePath('/bar');
+        $this->assertEquals(
+            '/bar/?page=foo',
+            $this->router->pathFor('foo', [], [])
+        );
+    }
+}