diff --git a/resources/ansible/roles/nginx/templates/default.j2 b/resources/ansible/roles/nginx/templates/default.j2
index e0d224afc4..dab442e30b 100644
--- a/resources/ansible/roles/nginx/templates/default.j2
+++ b/resources/ansible/roles/nginx/templates/default.j2
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ server {
 
     location /api {
       root {{ nginx.docroot }}/www;
-      rewrite ^(.*)$ /api.php/$1 last;
+      rewrite ^(.*)$ /api_dev.php/$1 last;
     }
 
     location ~ ^/(index|index_dev|api)\.php(/|$) {
diff --git a/www/api_dev.php b/www/api_dev.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bf463328a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/api_dev.php
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?php
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of Phraseanet
+ *
+ * (c) 2005-2016 Alchemy
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code.
+ */
+
+use Alchemy\Phrasea\Application;
+use Symfony\Component\Debug\ErrorHandler;
+
+require_once __DIR__ . '/../lib/autoload.php';
+
+error_reporting(0);
+
+ErrorHandler::register();
+
+$environment = getenv('APP_ENV') ?: Application::ENV_DEV;
+$app = require __DIR__ . '/../lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/Application/Api.php';
+
+$app->run();