diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/cookie_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/cookie_rewriter.py
index c9c7e8b5..78e3c9c6 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/cookie_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/cookie_rewriter.py
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@ class WbUrlCookieRewriter(object):
             return results
 
         for name, morsel in cookie.iteritems():
+            # if domain set, no choice but to expand cookie path to root
             if morsel.get('domain'):
                 del morsel['domain']
-            if morsel.get('path'):
+                morsel['path'] = self.url_rewriter.prefix
+            # else set cookie to rewritten path
+            elif morsel.get('path'):
                 morsel['path'] = self.url_rewriter.rewrite(morsel['path'])
+            # remove expires as it refers to archived time
             if morsel.get('expires'):
                 del morsel['expires']
 
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_cookie_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_cookie_rewriter.py
index bba5c959..e5979fd4 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_cookie_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_cookie_rewriter.py
@@ -3,12 +3,16 @@ r"""
 >>> rewrite_cookie('a=b; c=d;')
 [('Set-Cookie', 'a=b'), ('Set-Cookie', 'c=d')]
 
->>> rewrite_cookie('some=value; Domain=foo.com; Path=/;')
+>>> rewrite_cookie('some=value; Path=/;')
 [('Set-Cookie', 'some=value; Path=/pywb/20131226101010/http://example.com/')]
 
->>> rewrite_cookie('some=value; Domain=foo.com; Path=/diff/path/;')
+>>> rewrite_cookie('some=value; Path=/diff/path/;')
 [('Set-Cookie', 'some=value; Path=/pywb/20131226101010/http://example.com/diff/path/')]
 
+# if domain set, set path to root
+>>> rewrite_cookie('some=value; Domain=.example.com; Path=/diff/path/;')
+[('Set-Cookie', 'some=value; Path=/pywb/')]
+
 >>> rewrite_cookie('abc=def; Path=file.html; Expires=Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:23:01 GMT')
 [('Set-Cookie', 'abc=def; Path=/pywb/20131226101010/http://example.com/some/path/file.html')]
 
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
index de772244..1a2b2cea 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ HTTP Headers Rewriting
  'text_type': None}
 
 # cookie, host/origin rewriting
->>> _test_headers([('Connection', 'close'), ('Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; Path=/; Domain=.example.com, abc=def; Path=somefile.html'), ('Host', 'example.com'), ('Origin', 'https://example.com')])
+>>> _test_headers([('Connection', 'close'), ('Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; Path=/; abc=def; Path=somefile.html'), ('Host', 'example.com'), ('Origin', 'https://example.com')])
 {'charset': None,
  'removed_header_dict': {},
  'status_headers': StatusAndHeaders(protocol = '', statusline = '200 OK', headers = [ ('X-Archive-Orig-Connection', 'close'),
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ HTTP Headers Rewriting
  'text_type': 'js'}
 
 # Binary -- transfer-encoding removed
->>> _test_headers([('Content-Length', '200000'), ('Content-Type', 'image/png'), ('Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; Path=/; Domain=.example.com'), ('Content-Encoding', 'gzip'), ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')])
+>>> _test_headers([('Content-Length', '200000'), ('Content-Type', 'image/png'), ('Set-Cookie', 'foo=bar; Path=/;'), ('Content-Encoding', 'gzip'), ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')])
 {'charset': None,
  'removed_header_dict': {'transfer-encoding': 'chunked'},
  'status_headers': StatusAndHeaders(protocol = '', statusline = '200 OK', headers = [ ('Content-Length', '200000'),