diff --git a/server/AyaNova/Controllers/ApiRootController.cs b/server/AyaNova/Controllers/ApiRootController.cs
index 2ed19b10..bc51b6bb 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/Controllers/ApiRootController.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/Controllers/ApiRootController.cs
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
             <div style=""text-align: center;""> 
             <div style=""display: inline-block;text-align:left;"">          
             <h1>{AyaNovaVersion.FullNameAndVersion}</h1> 
-            <a href=""/"">AyaNova Client</a><br/><br/>             
-            <a href=""/docs"">Manual</a><br/><br/>                    
-            <a href=""/api-docs"">API explorer</a><br/><br/>         
+            <a href=""/"" target=""_blank"">AyaNova App</a><br/><br/>             
+            <a href=""/docs"" target=""_blank"">AyaNova manual</a><br/><br/>                    
+            <a href=""/api-docs"" target=""_blank"">API explorer</a><br/><br/>         
             <a href=""mailto:support@ayanova.com"">Email AyaNova support</a><br/><br/>  
             <h4>{LocaleBiz.GetDefaultLocalizedText("HelpLicense").Result}</h4>             
             <pre>{AyaNova.Core.License.LicenseInfo}</pre> 
diff --git a/server/AyaNova/Startup.cs b/server/AyaNova/Startup.cs
index 440f99e5..a74c80e9 100644
--- a/server/AyaNova/Startup.cs
+++ b/server/AyaNova/Startup.cs
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ namespace AyaNova
                 //to support html5 pushstate routing in spa
                 //this ensures that a refresh at the client will not 404 but rather force back to the index.html app page and then handled internally by the client 
                 await next();
-                if (context.Response.StatusCode == 404 && !Path.HasExtension(context.Request.Path.Value))
+                if (context.Request.Path.Value!= "/docs" && context.Response.StatusCode == 404 && !Path.HasExtension(context.Request.Path.Value))
                 {
                     context.Request.Path = "/index.html";
                     context.Response.StatusCode = 200;