diff --git a/config/dev-indexer-config.json b/config/dev-indexer-config.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5adc98af9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/dev-indexer-config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ "_for-emacs": "-*- mode: js2;-*-",
+  "baseURL": ["_env", "http://localhost:${CAMLI_PORT}"],
+  "password": ["_env", "${CAMLI_PASSWORD}"],
+  "prefixes": {
+    "/indexer/": {
+         "handler": "mysqlindexer",
+         "handlerArgs": {
+              "database": "devcamlistore",
+              "user": "root",
+              "password": "root",
+              "host": "127.0.0.1"
+         }
+      }
+  }
+}
+
+
diff --git a/dev-indexer b/dev-indexer
index 0d99f81f8..a31e6bbf3 100755
--- a/dev-indexer
+++ b/dev-indexer
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use strict;
-use FindBin;
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
 use Getopt::Long;
 use DBI;
 
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ unless (-d $root) {
     system("mkdir", "-p", $root) and die "Failed to create $root.\n";
 }
 
+
 my $DBNAME = "devcamlistore";
 
 my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=mysql", "root", "root") or
@@ -78,11 +79,11 @@ if ($opt_wipe) {
              ")");
 }
 
-print "Starting indexer with indexer on http://localhost:$port/ in $root\n";
+print "Starting indexer with indexer on http://localhost:$port/indexer/\n";
 
 $ENV{CAMLI_PASSWORD} = "pass$port";
+$ENV{CAMLI_PORT} = $port;
 exec("$FindBin::Bin/server/go/camlistored/camlistored",
-     "-root=$root",  # NOTE: Root required but not used by indexer blobserver
+     "-configfile=$Bin/config/dev-indexer-config.json",
      "-listen=:$port",
-     "-devmysqlindexer",
      @ARGV);