diff --git a/app/controllers/app.js b/app/controllers/app.js
index 013ec6de..51fa900d 100755
--- a/app/controllers/app.js
+++ b/app/controllers/app.js
@@ -164,13 +164,24 @@ app.set("trust proxy", true);
 
 // basic routing
 app.options('*', function(req,res) { setCrossDomain(res); res.end(); });
-app.all(global.settings.base_url+'/sql',     function(req, res) { handleQuery(req, res) } );
-app.all(global.settings.base_url+'/sql.:f',  function(req, res) { handleQuery(req, res) } );
-app.get(global.settings.base_url+'/cachestatus',  function(req, res) { handleCacheStatus(req, res) } );
-app.get(global.settings.base_url+'/health',  function(req, res) { handleHealthCheck(req, res) } );
-app.get(global.settings.base_url+'/version', function(req, res) {
-  res.send(getVersion());
-});
+
+app.all(global.settings.base_url + '/sql',  handleQuery);
+app.all(global.settings.base_url + '/sql.:f',  handleQuery);
+app.get(global.settings.base_url + '/cachestatus', handleCacheStatus);
+app.get(global.settings.base_url + '/health',  handleHealthCheck);
+app.get(global.settings.base_url + '/version', handleVersion);
+
+if (global.settings.user_url) {
+  var user_url = global.settings.user_url;
+  if (user_url.indexOf(':user') === -1) {
+    throw new Error("user_url setting must contain :user")
+  }
+  app.all(user_url + global.settings.base_url + '/sql', handleQuery);
+  app.all(user_url + global.settings.base_url + '/sql.:f', handleQuery);
+  app.get(user_url + global.settings.base_url + '/cachestatus', handleCacheStatus);
+  app.get(user_url + global.settings.base_url + '/health', handleHealthCheck);
+  app.get(user_url + global.settings.base_url + '/version', handleVersion);
+}
 
 var sqlQueryMayWriteRegex = new RegExp("\\b(alter|insert|update|delete|create|drop|reindex|truncate)\\b", "i");
 /**
@@ -192,6 +203,10 @@ function sanitize_filename(filename) {
 }
 
 // request handlers
+function handleVersion(req, res) {
+  res.send(getVersion());
+}
+
 function handleQuery(req, res) {
 
     // extract input
@@ -207,6 +222,8 @@ function handleQuery(req, res) {
     var requestedFilename = params.filename;
     var filename  = requestedFilename;
     var requestedSkipfields = params.skipfields;
+    // if the request contains the user use it, if not guess from the host
+    var cdbUsername = req.params.user || cdbReq.userByReq(req);
     var skipfields;
     var dp        = params.dp; // decimal point digits (defaults to 6)
     var gn        = "the_geom"; // TODO: read from configuration file
@@ -280,8 +297,7 @@ function handleQuery(req, res) {
 
         var formatter;
 
-        var cdbUsername = cdbReq.userByReq(req),
-            authApi = new AuthApi(req, params),
+        var authApi = new AuthApi(req, params),
             dbParams;
 
         if ( req.profiler ) req.profiler.done('init');
diff --git a/config/environments/development.js.example b/config/environments/development.js.example
index 8aa86073..65c2fdfd 100644
--- a/config/environments/development.js.example
+++ b/config/environments/development.js.example
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 module.exports.base_url     = '/api/:version';
+// if user_url is defined the api will respond to requests like:
+// user_url + base_url
+// for example
+// /u/:user/api/sql?q=....
+// needs to have :user parameter, if not it will fail on server startup
+module.exports.user_url     = '/u/:user';
 // If useProfiler is true every response will be served with an
 // X-SQLAPI-Profile header containing elapsed timing for various
 // steps taken for producing the response.
diff --git a/test/acceptance/app.test.js b/test/acceptance/app.test.js
index fdf5824d..b6381c0d 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/app.test.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/app.test.js
@@ -147,6 +147,17 @@ test('GET /api/v1/sql with SQL parameter on SELECT only. no database param, just
     });
 });
 
+test('GET /u/vizzuality/api/v1/sql with SQL parameter on SELECT only', function(done){
+    assert.response(app, {
+        url: '/u/vizzuality/api/v1/sql?q=SELECT%20*%20FROM%20untitle_table_4',
+        method: 'GET'
+    },{ }, function(res) {
+        assert.equal(res.statusCode, 200, res.body);
+        done();
+    });
+});
+
+
 // See https://github.com/CartoDB/CartoDB-SQL-API/issues/121
 test('SELECT from user-specific database', function(done){
     var backupDBHost = global.settings.db_host;