diff --git a/client/components/pages/account.jsx b/client/components/pages/account.jsx
index a529a45..fe947ea 100644
--- a/client/components/pages/account.jsx
+++ b/client/components/pages/account.jsx
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const Account = props => {
 
 	//grab the user's info
 	useEffect(() => {
-		authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/account`, {
+		authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/account`, {
 			method: 'GET',
 			headers: {
 				'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ const update = async (password, retype, contact, tokenFetch) => {
 		return ['Password is too short'];
 	}
 
-	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/update`, {
+	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/account`, {
 		method: 'PATCH',
 		headers: {
 			'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
diff --git a/client/components/pages/homepage.jsx b/client/components/pages/homepage.jsx
index 28380c0..66d0cc8 100644
--- a/client/components/pages/homepage.jsx
+++ b/client/components/pages/homepage.jsx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const HomePage = props => {
 	return (
 		<div className='page'>
 			<p>This is the MERN template homepage.</p>
-			<NewsFeed uri={process.env.NEWS_URI} />
+			<NewsFeed />
 		</div>
 	);
 };
diff --git a/client/components/pages/login.jsx b/client/components/pages/login.jsx
index 9bb6a31..d24fc6a 100644
--- a/client/components/pages/login.jsx
+++ b/client/components/pages/login.jsx
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ const handleSubmit = async (email, password) => {
 	}
 
 	//send to the auth server
-	const result = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/login`, {
+	const result = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/login`, {
 		method: 'POST',
 		headers: {
 			'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/client/components/pages/signup.jsx b/client/components/pages/signup.jsx
index 3306eea..46b9203 100644
--- a/client/components/pages/signup.jsx
+++ b/client/components/pages/signup.jsx
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ const handleSubmit = async (email, username, password, retype, contact) => {
 	}
 
 	//send to the auth server
-	const result = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/signup`, {
+	const result = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/signup`, {
 		method: 'POST',
 		headers: {
 			'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/client/components/panels/delete-account.jsx b/client/components/panels/delete-account.jsx
index f56ebfa..deffa43 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/delete-account.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/delete-account.jsx
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const DeleteAccount = props => {
 
 const handleSubmit = async (password, authTokens) => {
 	//schedule a deletion
-	const result = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/deletion`, {
+	const result = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/account`, {
 		method: 'DELETE',
 		headers: {
 			'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ const handleSubmit = async (password, authTokens) => {
 	}
 
 	//force a logout
-	const result2 = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/logout`, {
+	const result2 = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/logout`, {
 		method: 'DELETE',
 		headers: {
 			'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
diff --git a/client/components/panels/header.jsx b/client/components/panels/header.jsx
index 430df8d..3f5166b 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/header.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/header.jsx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ const Member = () => {
 
 			{ /* Logout button logs you out of the server too */ }
 			<Link to='/' onClick={async () => {
-				const result = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/logout`, { //NOTE: this gets overwritten as a bugfix
+				const result = await authTokens.tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/logout`, { //NOTE: this gets overwritten as a bugfix
 					method: 'DELETE',
 					headers: {
 						'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/client/components/panels/news-editor.jsx b/client/components/panels/news-editor.jsx
index e2af6aa..4325586 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/news-editor.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/news-editor.jsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const NewsEditor = props => {
 
 	//run once
 	useEffect(async () => {
-		const result = await fetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/metadata?limit=999`, {
+		const result = await fetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news/metadata?limit=999`, {
 			method: 'GET',
 			headers: {
 				'Content-Type': 'application/json',
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const NewsEditor = props => {
 						//fetch this article
 						const index = values[0].value;
 
-						const result = await fetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/archive/${index}`, {
+						const result = await fetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news/archive/${index}`, {
 							headers: {
 								'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
 							}
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ const handleSubmit = async (title, author, body, index, tokenFetch) => {
 	body = body.trim();
 
 	//fetch POST json data
-	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/${index}`, {
+	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news/${index}`, {
 		method: 'PATCH',
 		headers: {
 			'Content-Type': 'application/json',
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ const handleDelete = async (index, tokenFetch) => {
 	const conf = confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this article?');
 
 	if (conf) {
-		const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/${index}`, {
+		const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news/${index}`, {
 			method: 'DELETE'
 		});
 
diff --git a/client/components/panels/news-feed.jsx b/client/components/panels/news-feed.jsx
index 7a3e28e..55ffa1d 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/news-feed.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/news-feed.jsx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const NewsFeed = props => {
 	const [articles, setArticles] = useState([]);
 
 	useEffect(async () => {
-		const result = await fetch(props.uri, {
+		const result = await fetch(`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news`, {
 			method: 'GET',
 			headers: {
 				'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/client/components/panels/news-publisher.jsx b/client/components/panels/news-publisher.jsx
index 9847689..8db99e9 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/news-publisher.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/news-publisher.jsx
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ const handleSubmit = async (title, author, body, tokenFetch) => {
 
 	//fetch POST json data
 	const result = await tokenFetch(
-		`${process.env.NEWS_URI}`,
+		`${process.env.NEWS_URI}/news`,
 		{
 			method: 'POST',
 			headers: {
diff --git a/client/components/panels/privilege-editor.jsx b/client/components/panels/privilege-editor.jsx
index bec0868..f8ba9b4 100644
--- a/client/components/panels/privilege-editor.jsx
+++ b/client/components/panels/privilege-editor.jsx
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const PrivilegeEditor = props => {
 };
 
 const handleSubmit = async (username, privilege, tokenFetch) => {
-	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/account/privilege`, {
+	const result = await tokenFetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/admin/privilege`, {
 		method: 'PATCH',
 		headers: {
 			'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/client/components/utilities/token-provider.jsx b/client/components/utilities/token-provider.jsx
index fdea3df..1df6d0f 100644
--- a/client/components/utilities/token-provider.jsx
+++ b/client/components/utilities/token-provider.jsx
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const TokenProvider = props => {
 
 		if (expired) {
 			//ping the auth server for a new token
-			const response = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/token`, {
+			const response = await fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/token`, {
 				method: 'POST',
 				headers: {
 					'Content-Type': 'application/json',
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ const TokenProvider = props => {
 			bearer = newAuth.accessToken;
 
 			//BUGFIX: logging out correctly requires the new refresh token
-			if (url == `${process.env.AUTH_URI}/logout`) {
-				return fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/logout`, {
+			if (url == `${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/logout`) {
+				return fetch(`${process.env.AUTH_URI}/auth/logout`, {
 					method: 'DELETE',
 					headers: {
 						'Content-Type': 'application/json',
diff --git a/configure-script.js b/configure-script.js
index 6ad9a4c..b6b696f 100644
--- a/configure-script.js
+++ b/configure-script.js
@@ -124,8 +124,8 @@ services:
       - DB_USERNAME=${projectDBUser}
       - DB_PASSWORD=${projectDBPass}
       - DB_TIMEZONE=${dbTimeZone}
-      - NEWS_URI=https://${newsWebAddress}/news
-      - AUTH_URI=https://${authWebAddress}/auth
+      - NEWS_URI=https://${newsWebAddress}
+      - AUTH_URI=https://${authWebAddress}
       - SECRET_ACCESS=${accessToken}
     networks:
       - app-network
diff --git a/webpack.config.js b/webpack.config.js
index 18bac99..252f764 100644
--- a/webpack.config.js
+++ b/webpack.config.js
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ module.exports = ({ production, analyzer }) => {
 			new DefinePlugin({
 				'process.env': {
 					'PRODUCTION': production,
-					'NEWS_URI': production ? `"${process.env.NEWS_URI}"` : '"https://dev-news.eggtrainer.com/news"',
-					'AUTH_URI': production ? `"${process.env.AUTH_URI}"` : '"https://dev-auth.eggtrainer.com/auth"',
-//					'CHAT_URI': production ? `"${process.env.CHAT_URI}"` : '"https://dev-chat.eggtrainer.com/chat"',
+					'NEWS_URI': production ? `"${process.env.NEWS_URI}"` : '"https://dev-news.eggtrainer.com"',
+					'AUTH_URI': production ? `"${process.env.AUTH_URI}"` : '"https://dev-auth.eggtrainer.com"',
+//					'CHAT_URI': production ? `"${process.env.CHAT_URI}"` : '"https://dev-chat.eggtrainer.com"',
 				}
 			}),
 			new CleanWebpackPlugin({