copy the system/classes/kohana/request.php to your application/classes/kohana/request.php directory and open the file.
edit the file at around line 332 in the detect_uri method.
public static function detect_uri() { ... // cut out the initial base part to make sure the internal routing will get correct input $uri = str_replace(Kohana::$base_url.Kohana::$index_file, '', $uri); return $uri; }