diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 73063b33..b2ec37f8 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -5,12 +5,6 @@ MAINTAINER Ilya Kreymer <ikreymer at gmail.com>
 RUN mkdir /uwsgi
 COPY uwsgi.ini /uwsgi/
 
-#RUN pip install gevent==1.1.2 certauth youtube-dl boto uwsgi urllib3
-#RUN pip install git+https://github.com/t0m/pyamf.git@python3
-#RUN pip install webassets pyyaml brotlipy
-#RUN pip install six chardet 'requests<2.12' redis jinja2 'surt>=0.3.0' webencodings portalocker
-
-#RUN mkdir /pywb
 WORKDIR /pywb
 
 ADD requirements.txt .
diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 57957ae1..48626f21 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ install:
   - "pip install coverage pytest-cov coveralls"
   - "pip install cffi"
   - "pip install pyopenssl"
-  - "pip install certauth boto youtube-dl"
+  - "pip install certauth boto3 youtube-dl"
 
 build_script:
   - "python setup.py install"
diff --git a/extra_requirements.txt b/extra_requirements.txt
index 9e60f57b..2edeb5de 100644
--- a/extra_requirements.txt
+++ b/extra_requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 certauth
 youtube-dl
-boto
+boto3
 uwsgi
 git+https://github.com/t0m/pyamf.git@python3
 git+https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson.git
diff --git a/pywb/apps/frontendapp.py b/pywb/apps/frontendapp.py
index b7255939..f3712927 100644
--- a/pywb/apps/frontendapp.py
+++ b/pywb/apps/frontendapp.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ class FrontEndApp(object):
         static_path = config.get('static_url_path', 'pywb/static/').replace('/', os.path.sep)
         self.static_handler = StaticHandler(static_path)
 
-        self.all_coll = config.get('all_coll', None)
+        self.cdx_api_endpoint = config.get('cdx_api_endpoint', '/cdx')
 
         self._init_routes()
 
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ class FrontEndApp(object):
             coll_prefix = '/<coll>'
             self.url_map.add(Rule('/', endpoint=self.serve_home))
 
+        self.url_map.add(Rule(coll_prefix + self.cdx_api_endpoint, endpoint=self.serve_cdx))
         self.url_map.add(Rule(coll_prefix + '/', endpoint=self.serve_coll_page))
         self.url_map.add(Rule(coll_prefix + '/timemap/<timemap_output>/<path:url>', endpoint=self.serve_content))
-        self.url_map.add(Rule(coll_prefix + '/cdx', endpoint=self.serve_cdx))
 
         if self.recorder_path:
             self.url_map.add(Rule(coll_prefix + self.RECORD_ROUTE + '/<path:url>', endpoint=self.serve_record))
@@ -197,7 +197,8 @@ class FrontEndApp(object):
 
         content = view.render_to_string(environ,
                                         wb_prefix=wb_prefix,
-                                        metadata=metadata)
+                                        metadata=metadata,
+                                        coll=coll)
 
         return WbResponse.text_response(content, content_type='text/html; charset="utf-8"')
 
diff --git a/pywb/utils/loaders.py b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
index 4b6c4b74..dcda32d4 100644
--- a/pywb/utils/loaders.py
+++ b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ from io import open, BytesIO
 from warcio.limitreader import LimitReader
 
 try:
-    from boto import connect_s3
+    import boto3
+    from botocore import UNSIGNED
+    from botocore.client import Config
     s3_avail = True
 except ImportError:  #pragma: no cover
     s3_avail = False
@@ -325,14 +327,14 @@ class HttpLoader(BaseLoader):
 #=================================================================
 class S3Loader(BaseLoader):
     def __init__(self, **kwargs):
-        self.s3conn = None
+        self.client = None
         self.aws_access_key_id = kwargs.get('aws_access_key_id')
         self.aws_secret_access_key = kwargs.get('aws_secret_access_key')
 
     def load(self, url, offset, length):
         if not s3_avail:  #pragma: no cover
            raise IOError('To load from s3 paths, ' +
-                          'you must install boto: pip install boto')
+                          'you must install boto3: pip install boto3')
 
         aws_access_key_id = self.aws_access_key_id
         aws_secret_access_key = self.aws_secret_access_key
@@ -346,24 +348,45 @@ class S3Loader(BaseLoader):
         else:
             bucket_name = parts.netloc
 
-        if not self.s3conn:
-            try:
-                self.s3conn = connect_s3(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key)
-            except Exception:  #pragma: no cover
-                self.s3conn = connect_s3(anon=True)
-
-        bucket = self.s3conn.get_bucket(bucket_name)
-
-        key = bucket.get_key(parts.path)
+        key = parts.path[1:]
 
         if offset == 0 and length == -1:
-            headers = {}
+            range_ = ''
         else:
-            headers = {'Range': BlockLoader._make_range_header(offset, length)}
+            range_ = BlockLoader._make_range_header(offset, length)
 
-        # Read range
-        key.open_read(headers=headers)
-        return key
+        def s3_load(anon=False):
+            if not self.client:
+                if anon:
+                    config = Config(signature_version=UNSIGNED)
+                else:
+                    config = None
+
+                client = boto3.client('s3', aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key_id,
+                                            aws_secret_access_key=aws_secret_access_key,
+                                            config=config)
+            else:
+                client = self.client
+
+            res = client.get_object(Bucket=bucket_name,
+                                    Key=key,
+                                    Range=range_)
+
+            if not self.client:
+                self.client = client
+
+            return res
+
+        try:
+            obj = s3_load(anon=False)
+
+        except Exception:
+            if not self.client:
+                obj = s3_load(anon=True)
+            else:
+                raise
+
+        return obj['Body']
 
 
 #=================================================================
diff --git a/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py b/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
index d62e9626..4a217616 100644
--- a/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
+++ b/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ test_cdx_dir = get_test_dir() + 'cdx/'
 
 
 def test_s3_read_1():
-    pytest.importorskip('boto')
+    pytest.importorskip('boto3')
 
     res = BlockLoader().load('s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462700.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00159-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz',
                              offset=53235662,
@@ -106,6 +106,19 @@ def test_s3_read_1():
     assert reader.readline() == b'WARC/1.0\r\n'
     assert reader.readline() == b'WARC-Type: response\r\n'
 
+def test_s3_read_2():
+    pytest.importorskip('boto3')
+
+    res = BlockLoader().load('s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/index.html')
+
+    buff = res.read()
+    assert len(buff) == 2082
+
+    reader = DecompressingBufferedReader(BytesIO(buff))
+    assert reader.readline() == b'<!DOCTYPE html>\n'
+
+
+
 # Error
 def test_err_no_such_file():
     # no such file
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/handlers.py b/pywb/warcserver/handlers.py
index a8f2dd11..35507f3e 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/handlers.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/handlers.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ def to_cdxj(cdx_iter, fields):
     return content_type, (cdx.to_cdxj(fields) for cdx in cdx_iter)
 
 def to_json(cdx_iter, fields):
-    content_type = 'application/x-ndjson'
+    content_type = 'text/x-ndjson'
     return content_type, (cdx.to_json(fields) for cdx in cdx_iter)
 
 def to_text(cdx_iter, fields):
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/index/aggregator.py b/pywb/warcserver/index/aggregator.py
index 77506ab8..36d3e3b3 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/index/aggregator.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/index/aggregator.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from pywb.utils.format import ParamFormatter, res_template
 from pywb.warcserver.index.indexsource import FileIndexSource, RedisIndexSource
 from pywb.warcserver.index.cdxops import process_cdx
 from pywb.warcserver.index.query import CDXQuery
+from pywb.warcserver.index.zipnum import ZipNumIndexSource
 
 import six
 import glob
@@ -55,6 +56,9 @@ class BaseAggregator(object):
             err_list = [(name, repr(wbe))]
 
         def add_name(cdx, name):
+            if not cdx.get('url'):
+                return cdx
+
             if cdx.get('source'):
                 cdx['source'] = name + ':' + cdx['source']
             else:
@@ -245,10 +249,11 @@ class GeventTimeoutAggregator(TimeoutMixin, GeventMixin, BaseSourceListAggregato
 
 #=============================================================================
 class BaseDirectoryIndexSource(BaseAggregator):
-    def __init__(self, base_prefix, base_dir='', name=''):
+    def __init__(self, base_prefix, base_dir='', name='', config=None):
         self.base_prefix = base_prefix
         self.base_dir = base_dir
         self.name = name
+        self.config = config
 
     def _iter_sources(self, params):
         the_dir = res_template(self.base_dir, params)
@@ -269,7 +274,10 @@ class BaseDirectoryIndexSource(BaseAggregator):
         for name in os.listdir(the_dir):
             filename = os.path.join(the_dir, name)
 
-            if filename.endswith(FileIndexSource.CDX_EXT):
+            is_cdx = filename.endswith(FileIndexSource.CDX_EXT)
+            is_zip = filename.endswith(ZipNumIndexSource.IDX_EXT)
+
+            if is_cdx or is_zip:
                 #print('Adding ' + filename)
                 rel_path = os.path.relpath(the_dir, self.base_prefix)
                 if rel_path == '.':
@@ -280,7 +288,12 @@ class BaseDirectoryIndexSource(BaseAggregator):
                 if self.name:
                     full_name = self.name + ':' + full_name
 
-                yield full_name, FileIndexSource(filename)
+                if is_cdx:
+                    index_src = FileIndexSource(filename)
+                else:
+                    index_src = ZipNumIndexSource(filename, self.config)
+
+                yield full_name, index_src
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return '{0}(file://{1})'.format(self.__class__.__name__,
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/index/query.py b/pywb/warcserver/index/query.py
index e88ddfbf..64538a59 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/index/query.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/index/query.py
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ from pywb.utils.canonicalize import calc_search_range
 class CDXQuery(object):
     def __init__(self, params):
         self.params = params
-        url = self.url
-        url = self.params.get('alt_url', url)
+        alt_url = self.params.get('alt_url')
+        url = alt_url or self.url
         if not self.params.get('matchType'):
             if url.startswith('*.'):
                 url = self.params['url'] = url[2:]
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ class CDXQuery(object):
             else:
                 self.params['matchType'] = 'exact'
 
+        if alt_url:
+            self.params['alt_url'] = url
+
         start, end = calc_search_range(url=url,
                                        match_type=self.params['matchType'],
                                        url_canon=self.params.get('_url_canon'))
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/index/test/test_zipnum.py b/pywb/warcserver/index/test/test_zipnum.py
index b5a5863c..32aee8d4 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/index/test/test_zipnum.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/index/test/test_zipnum.py
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ def test_zip_prefix_load():
         cdx_iter, err = results
         results = list(cdx_iter)
         assert len(results) == 1, results
-        assert results[0] == {"blocks": 38, "pages": 4, "pageSize": 10, "source": "zip"}
+        assert results[0] == {"blocks": 38, "pages": 4, "pageSize": 10}
 
 
         # Test simple query
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/index/zipnum.py b/pywb/warcserver/index/zipnum.py
index 84d9ec02..6037b2cd 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/index/zipnum.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/index/zipnum.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
+from io import BytesIO
+
 import os
 import collections
 import itertools
 import logging
-from io import BytesIO
 import datetime
 import json
 import six
@@ -20,8 +21,8 @@ from pywb.utils.loaders import BlockLoader, read_last_line
 from pywb.utils.binsearch import iter_range, linearsearch, search
 
 
-#=================================================================
-class ZipBlocks:
+# ============================================================================
+class ZipBlocks(object):
     def __init__(self, part, offset, length, count):
         self.part = part
         self.offset = offset
@@ -29,7 +30,19 @@ class ZipBlocks:
         self.count = count
 
 
-#=================================================================
+# ============================================================================
+class AlwaysJsonResponse(dict):
+    def to_json(self, *args):
+        return json.dumps(self)
+
+    def to_text(self, *args):
+        return json.dumps(self)
+
+    def to_cdxj(self, *args):
+        return json.dumps(self)
+
+
+# ============================================================================
 #TODO: see if these could be combined with warc path resolvers
 
 class LocMapResolver(object):
@@ -76,7 +89,7 @@ class LocMapResolver(object):
         return self.loc_map[part]
 
 
-#=================================================================
+# ============================================================================
 class LocPrefixResolver(object):
     """ Use a prefix lookup, where the prefix can either be a fixed
     string or can be a regex replacement of the index summary path
@@ -95,10 +108,11 @@ class LocPrefixResolver(object):
         return [self.prefix + part]
 
 
-#=================================================================
+# ============================================================================
 class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
     DEFAULT_RELOAD_INTERVAL = 10  # in minutes
     DEFAULT_MAX_BLOCKS = 10
+    IDX_EXT = ('.idx', '.summary')
 
     def __init__(self, summary, config=None):
         self.max_blocks = self.DEFAULT_MAX_BLOCKS
@@ -118,7 +132,6 @@ class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
 
             reload_ival = config.get('reload_interval', reload_ival)
 
-
         if isinstance(loc, dict):
             self.loc_resolver = LocPrefixResolver(summary, loc)
         else:
@@ -132,23 +145,6 @@ class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
 
         self.blk_loader = BlockLoader(cookie_maker=cookie_maker)
 
-#    @staticmethod
-#    def reload_timed(timestamp, val, delta, func):
-#        now = datetime.datetime.now()
-#        if now - timestamp >= delta:
-#            func()
-#            return now
-#        return None
-#
-#    def reload_loc(self):
-#        reload_time = self.reload_timed(self.loc_update_time,
-#                                        self.loc_map,
-#                                        self.reload_interval,
-#                                        self.load_loc)
-#
-#        if reload_time:
-#            self.loc_update_time = reload_time
-
     def load_index(self, params):
         self.loc_resolver.load_loc()
         return self._do_load_cdx(self.summary, CDXQuery(params))
@@ -177,12 +173,12 @@ class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
 
         return gen_cdx()
 
-
     def _page_info(self, pages, pagesize, blocks):
-        info = dict(pages=pages,
+        info = AlwaysJsonResponse(
+                    pages=pages,
                     pageSize=pagesize,
                     blocks=blocks)
-        #return json.dumps(info) + '\n'
+
         return info
 
     def compute_page_range(self, reader, query):
@@ -338,7 +334,6 @@ class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
         a line iterator which decompresses and returns one line at a time,
         bounded by query.key and query.end_key
         """
-
         if (logging.getLogger().getEffectiveLevel() <= logging.DEBUG):
             msg = 'Loading {b.count} blocks from {loc}:{b.offset}+{b.length}'
             logging.debug(msg.format(b=blocks, loc=location))
@@ -391,7 +386,7 @@ class ZipNumIndexSource(BaseIndexSource):
         if value.startswith('file://'):
             value = value[7:]
 
-        if is_zipnum or value.endswith(('.idx', '.summary')):
+        if is_zipnum or value.endswith(cls.IDX_EXT):
             return cls(value, None)
 
     @classmethod
diff --git a/pywb/warcserver/warcserver.py b/pywb/warcserver/warcserver.py
index f9df3cb2..e51665e0 100644
--- a/pywb/warcserver/warcserver.py
+++ b/pywb/warcserver/warcserver.py
@@ -78,9 +78,10 @@ class WarcServer(BaseWarcServer):
         templ = self.config.get(name)
 
         def get_full_path(path):
-            path = os.path.join(self.AUTO_COLL_TEMPL, path, '')
-            if abs_path and '://' not in path:
-                path = os.path.join(abs_path, path)
+            if '://' not in path:
+                path = os.path.join(self.AUTO_COLL_TEMPL, path, '')
+                if abs_path:
+                    path = os.path.join(abs_path, path)
             return path
 
         if isinstance(templ, str):
@@ -94,7 +95,8 @@ class WarcServer(BaseWarcServer):
             return
 
         dir_source = CacheDirectoryIndexSource(base_prefix=self.root_dir,
-                                               base_dir=self.index_paths)
+                                               base_dir=self.index_paths,
+                                               config=self.config)
 
         return DefaultResourceHandler(dir_source, self.archive_paths)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_zipnum_auto_dir.py b/tests/test_zipnum_auto_dir.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a3f77b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_zipnum_auto_dir.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+from .base_config_test import BaseConfigTest, CollsDirMixin
+from pywb.manager.manager import main as manager
+
+from pywb.warcserver.index.cdxobject import CDXObject
+import shutil
+from pywb import get_test_dir
+import os
+import json
+
+
+# ============================================================================
+class TestZipnumAutoDir(CollsDirMixin, BaseConfigTest):
+    @classmethod
+    def setup_class(cls):
+        super(TestZipnumAutoDir, cls).setup_class('config_test.yaml')
+
+        manager(['init', 'testzip'])
+
+        cls.archive_dir = os.path.join(cls.root_dir, '_test_colls', 'testzip', 'archive')
+        cls.index_dir = os.path.join(cls.root_dir, '_test_colls', 'testzip', 'indexes')
+
+        zip_cdx = os.path.join(get_test_dir(), 'zipcdx')
+
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(zip_cdx, 'zipnum-sample.idx'), cls.index_dir)
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(zip_cdx, 'zipnum-sample.cdx.gz'), cls.index_dir)
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(zip_cdx, 'zipnum-sample.loc'), cls.index_dir)
+
+        shutil.copy(os.path.join(get_test_dir(), 'warcs', 'iana.warc.gz'), cls.archive_dir)
+
+    def test_cdxj_query(self):
+        res = self.testapp.get('/testzip/cdx?url=iana.org/domains/*')
+        assert len(res.text.rstrip().split('\n')) == 9
+
+    def test_num_pages_query(self):
+        res = self.testapp.get('/testzip/cdx?url=http://iana.org/domains/&matchType=domain&showNumPages=true&pageSize=4')
+        res.content_type = 'text/json'
+        assert(res.json == {"blocks": 38, "pages": 10, "pageSize": 4})
+
+    def test_paged_index_query(self):
+        res = self.testapp.get('/testzip/cdx?url=http://iana.org/domains/&matchType=domain&output=json&showPagedIndex=true&pageSize=4&page=1')
+
+        lines = [json.loads(line) for line in res.text.rstrip().split('\n')]
+
+        assert lines[0] == {"urlkey": "org,iana)/_css/2013.1/fonts/opensans-bold.ttf 20140126200912", "part": "zipnum", "offset": 1150, "length": 235, "lineno": 5}
+        assert lines[1] == {"urlkey": "org,iana)/_css/2013.1/fonts/opensans-bold.ttf 20140126201240", "part": "zipnum", "offset": 1385, "length": 307, "lineno": 6}
+        assert lines[2] == {"urlkey": "org,iana)/_css/2013.1/fonts/opensans-regular.ttf 20140126200654", "part": "zipnum", "offset": 1692, "length": 235, "lineno": 7}
+        assert lines[3] == {"urlkey": "org,iana)/_css/2013.1/fonts/opensans-regular.ttf 20140126200816", "part": "zipnum", "offset": 1927, "length": 231, "lineno": 8}
+
+
+