diff --git a/etc/dev.localhost.localdomain.psgi b/etc/dev.localhost.localdomain.psgi
index ae98f20df..b0f6b63b9 100644
--- a/etc/dev.localhost.localdomain.psgi
+++ b/etc/dev.localhost.localdomain.psgi
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
 use Plack::Builder;
 use lib '/data/WebGUI/lib';
 use WebGUI;
+WebGUI->init( root => '/data/WebGUI', config => 'dev.localhost.localdomain.conf' );
 
 builder {
-    
-    # Populate $env from site.conf
-    add 'Plack::Middleware::WebGUI', 
-        root => '/data/WebGUI',
-        config => 'dev.localhost.localdomain.conf';
 
     # Handle /extras via Plack::Middleware::Static
     # (or Plack::Middleware::WebGUI could do this for us by looking up extrasPath and extrasURL in site.conf)
-    add 'Plack::Middleware::Static',
+    enable 'Plack::Middleware::Static',
         path => qr{^/extras/},
         root => '/data/WebGUI/www';
 
     # Handle /uploads via Plack::Middleware::WGAccess (including .wgaccess)
     # (or Plack::Middleware::WebGUI could do this for us by looking up uploadsPath and uploadsURL in site.conf)
-    add 'Plack::Middleware::WGAccess',
+    #enable 'Plack::Middleware::WGAccess',
+    #    path     => qr{^/uploads/},
+    #    root => '/data/domains/dev.localhost.localdomain/public';
+        
+    enable 'Plack::Middleware::Static',
         path     => qr{^/uploads/},
         root => '/data/domains/dev.localhost.localdomain/public';
 
diff --git a/lib/Plack/Middleware/WebGUI.pm b/lib/Plack/Middleware/WebGUI.pm
index defa4eda5..748f531f0 100644
--- a/lib/Plack/Middleware/WebGUI.pm
+++ b/lib/Plack/Middleware/WebGUI.pm
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ Plack::Middleware::WebGUI
 
 Plack Middleware that populates $env
 
-In the future we might want to read the site.conf here and then cache it
-
 =cut
 
 sub call {
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI.pm b/lib/WebGUI.pm
index f60f377de..5ebaed2cc 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI.pm
@@ -162,15 +162,17 @@ The Apache2::RequestRec object passed in by Apache's mod_perl.
 
 sub handler {
     my $request = shift; # either apache request object or PSGI env hash
-    my $server;
+    my ($server, $config);
     if ($request->isa('WebGUI::Session::Plack')) {
         $server  = $request->server;
+        $config = WebGUI->config;
     } else {
         $request = Apache2::Request->new($request);
         $server  = Apache2::ServerUtil->server;	#instantiate the server api
+        my $configFile = shift || $request->dir_config('WebguiConfig'); #either we got a config file, or we'll build it from the request object's settings
+        $config = WebGUI::Config->new($server->dir_config('WebguiRoot'), $configFile); #instantiate the config object
     }
-	my $configFile = shift || $request->dir_config('WebguiConfig'); #either we got a config file, or we'll build it from the request object's settings
-	my $config = WebGUI::Config->new($server->dir_config('WebguiRoot'), $configFile); #instantiate the config object
+	
     my $error = "";
     my $matchUri = $request->uri;
     my $gateway = $config->get("gateway");
@@ -231,5 +233,19 @@ sub handle_psgi {
     return $plack->finalize;
 }
 
+# Experimental speed boost
+my ($root, $config_file, $config);
+sub init {
+    my $class = shift;
+    my %opts = @_;
+    $root = $opts{root};
+    $config_file = $opts{config};
+    $config = WebGUI::Config->new($root, $config_file);
+    warn 'INIT';
+}
+sub config { $config }
+sub root { $root }
+sub config_file { $config_file }
+
 1;
 
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Session.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Session.pm
index 1cc1d497b..942f3057e 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Session.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Session.pm
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ sub open {
 	my $configFile = shift;
 	my $request = shift;
 	my $server = shift;
-	my $config = WebGUI::Config->new($webguiRoot,$configFile);
+	my $config = WebGUI->config || WebGUI::Config->new($webguiRoot,$configFile);
 	my $self = {_config=>$config, _server=>$server};
 	bless $self , $class;
     
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Session/Plack.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Session/Plack.pm
index 3446718cf..1b552ffa1 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Session/Plack.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Session/Plack.pm
@@ -160,8 +160,8 @@ sub dir_config {
     my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
 
     # Translate the legacy WebguiRoot and WebguiConfig PerlSetVar's into known values
-    return $self->{env}->{'wg.WEBGUI_ROOT'}   if $c eq 'WebguiRoot';
-    return $self->{env}->{'wg.WEBGUI_CONFIG'} if $c eq 'WebguiConfig';
+    return WebGUI->root if $c eq 'WebguiRoot';
+    return WebGUI->config_file if $c eq 'WebguiConfig';
 
     # Otherwise, we might want to provide some sort of support (which Apache is still around)
     return $self->{env}->{"wg.DIR_CONFIG.$c"};