diff --git a/app/Console/Application.php b/app/Console/Application.php
index 130ae03..3906d6b 100644
--- a/app/Console/Application.php
+++ b/app/Console/Application.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ class Application extends \CLIFramework\Application
     /**
      * CLI Application version.
      */
-    const VERSION = SAKURA_VERSION;
+    const VERSION = 9001;
 
     /**
      * Enable command autoloading.
diff --git a/app/Console/Command/DatabaseMigrateCommand.php b/app/Console/Command/DatabaseMigrateCommand.php
index ecf2965..bce6250 100644
--- a/app/Console/Command/DatabaseMigrateCommand.php
+++ b/app/Console/Command/DatabaseMigrateCommand.php
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ class DatabaseMigrateCommand extends Command
             return;
         }
 
-        $migrator->run(ROOT . self::MIGRATIONS);
+        $migrator->run(path(self::MIGRATIONS));
 
         foreach ($migrator->getNotes() as $note) {
             $this->getLogger()->writeln(strip_tags($note));
diff --git a/app/Console/Command/DatabaseStatusCommand.php b/app/Console/Command/DatabaseStatusCommand.php
index 73d524f..fb25443 100644
--- a/app/Console/Command/DatabaseStatusCommand.php
+++ b/app/Console/Command/DatabaseStatusCommand.php
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class DatabaseStatusCommand extends Command
             'Migration',
         ]);
 
-        foreach ($migrator->getMigrationFiles(ROOT . self::MIGRATIONS) as $migration) {
+        foreach ($migrator->getMigrationFiles(path(self::MIGRATIONS)) as $migration) {
             $migrations->addRow([in_array($migration, $ran) ? 'Y' : 'N', $migration]);
         }
 
diff --git a/app/Console/Command/ServeCommand.php b/app/Console/Command/ServeCommand.php
index c989a27..4322e1f 100644
--- a/app/Console/Command/ServeCommand.php
+++ b/app/Console/Command/ServeCommand.php
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ class ServeCommand extends Command
      */
     public function execute()
     {
-        $document_root = addslashes(ROOT . 'public/');
-        $router_proxy = addslashes(ROOT . 'server.php');
+        $document_root = addslashes(path('public'));
+        $router_proxy = addslashes(path('server.php'));
         $php_dir = PHP_BINDIR;
         $host = config('dev.host');
 
diff --git a/app/Controllers/FileController.php b/app/Controllers/FileController.php
index 7ecf4e9..1ff1940 100644
--- a/app/Controllers/FileController.php
+++ b/app/Controllers/FileController.php
@@ -188,11 +188,11 @@ class FileController extends Controller
             }
         }
 
-        $noFile = ROOT . 'public/' . str_replace(
+        $noFile = path('public/' . str_replace(
             '%tplname%',
             Template::$name,
             config("user.{$method}_none")
-        );
+        ));
         $none = [
             'name' => basename($noFile),
             'data' => file_get_contents($noFile),
diff --git a/app/File.php b/app/File.php
index c098307..a2a3e35 100644
--- a/app/File.php
+++ b/app/File.php
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ class File
             ]);
 
         // Save the file data
-        file_put_contents(ROOT . config('file.uploads_dir') . $id . ".bin", $data);
+        file_put_contents(path(config('file.uploads_dir') . $id . ".bin"), $data);
 
         // Return a new File object
         return new File($id);
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class File
         if ($fileRow) {
             $this->id = $fileRow->file_id;
             $this->user = User::construct($fileRow->user_id);
-            $this->data = file_get_contents(ROOT . config('file.uploads_dir') . $fileRow->file_id . ".bin");
+            $this->data = file_get_contents(path(config('file.uploads_dir') . $fileRow->file_id . ".bin"));
             $this->name = $fileRow->file_name;
             $this->mime = $fileRow->file_mime;
             $this->time = $fileRow->file_time;
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class File
      */
     public function delete()
     {
-        $filename = ROOT . config('file.uploads_dir') . $this->id . ".bin";
+        $filename = path(config('file.uploads_dir') . $this->id . ".bin");
 
         if (file_exists($filename)) {
             unlink($filename);
diff --git a/app/FileSystem.php b/app/FileSystem.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..94a88aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/FileSystem.php
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Holds file system interaction stuff.
+ * @package Sakura
+ */
+
+namespace Sakura;
+
+/**
+ * Used for handling file system interactions.
+ * @package Sakura
+ * @author Julian van de Groep <me@flash.moe>
+ */
+class FileSystem
+{
+    private static $rootPath = null;
+
+    public static function getRootPath()
+    {
+        if (self::$rootPath === null) {
+            // assuming we're running from the 'app' subdirectory
+            self::$rootPath = realpath(__DIR__ . '/..');
+        }
+
+        return self::$rootPath;
+    }
+
+    public static function getPath($path)
+    {
+        return self::getRootPath() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . self::fixSlashes($path);
+    }
+
+    private static function fixSlashes($path)
+    {
+        return str_replace(['/', '\\'], DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $path);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Net.php b/app/Net.php
index e857a69..89467fc 100644
--- a/app/Net.php
+++ b/app/Net.php
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ class Net
             CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
             CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 2,
             CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 4,
-            CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Sakura/' . SAKURA_VERSION,
+            CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'Sakura/1.0 (+https://sakura.flash.moe)',
         ]);
 
         switch (strtolower($method)) {
diff --git a/app/Template.php b/app/Template.php
index 2dfabb5..ef74dc5 100644
--- a/app/Template.php
+++ b/app/Template.php
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class Template
     const FILE_EXT = '.twig';
 
     /**
-     * The path relative to ROOT.
+     * The path relative to the root.
      */
     const VIEWS_DIR = 'resources/views/';
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class Template
      */
     public static function init()
     {
-        $views_dir = ROOT . self::VIEWS_DIR;
+        $views_dir = path(self::VIEWS_DIR);
 
         // Initialise Twig Filesystem Loader
         $loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem();
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Template
         // Environment variable
         $env = [
             'cache' => config("performance.template_cache")
-            ? realpath(ROOT . config("performance.cache_dir") . 'views')
+            ? path(config("performance.cache_dir") . 'views')
             : false,
             'auto_reload' => true,
             'debug' => config("dev.twig_debug"),
@@ -159,6 +159,6 @@ class Template
      */
     public static function exists($name)
     {
-        return ctype_alnum($name) && file_exists(ROOT . self::VIEWS_DIR . $name . "/");
+        return ctype_alnum($name) && file_exists(path(self::VIEWS_DIR . $name . "/"));
     }
 }
diff --git a/public/index.php b/public/index.php
index cd355e1..51b2dd9 100644
--- a/public/index.php
+++ b/public/index.php
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ ob_start(config('performance.compression') ? 'ob_gzhandler' : null);
 
 // Initialise the router and include the routes file
 Routerv1::init();
-include_once ROOT . 'routes.php';
+include_once path('routes.php');
 
 // Initialise the current session
 $cookiePrefix = config('cookie.prefix');
diff --git a/sakura.php b/sakura.php
index 404c548..25e9a93 100644
--- a/sakura.php
+++ b/sakura.php
@@ -6,10 +6,6 @@
 
 namespace Sakura;
 
-// Define version and root path
-define('SAKURA_VERSION', 20160913);
-define('ROOT', __DIR__ . '/');
-
 // Turn error reporting on regardless of anything
 error_reporting(-1);
 
@@ -26,19 +22,19 @@ if (version_compare(phpversion(), '7.0.0', '<')) {
 }
 
 // Check if the composer autoloader exists
-if (!file_exists(ROOT . 'vendor/autoload.php')) {
+if (!file_exists('vendor/autoload.php')) {
     die('Autoloader not found, did you run composer install?');
 }
 
 // Include the autoloader
-require_once ROOT . 'vendor/autoload.php';
+require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
 // Register the handlers
 set_exception_handler([ExceptionHandler::class, 'exception']);
 set_error_handler([ExceptionHandler::class, 'error']);
 
 // Load the configuration
-Config::init(ROOT . 'config/config.ini');
+Config::init(path('config/config.ini'));
 
 // Start the database module
 $capsule = new DB;
diff --git a/utility.php b/utility.php
index c225e4d..d58dc21 100644
--- a/utility.php
+++ b/utility.php
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 use Sakura\Config;
 use Sakura\Exceptions\ConfigValueNotFoundException;
+use Sakura\FileSystem;
 use Sakura\Net;
 use Sakura\Routerv1;
 use Sakura\Template;
@@ -52,6 +53,12 @@ function view($name, $vars = [])
     return Template::render($name);
 }
 
+// Get a path
+function path($path)
+{
+    return FileSystem::getPath($path);
+}
+
 function clean_string($string, $lower = false, $noSpecial = false, $replaceSpecial = '')
 {
     // Run common sanitisation function over string