diff --git a/code/DocumentationHelper.php b/code/DocumentationHelper.php
index cdbc4ae..c061670 100644
--- a/code/DocumentationHelper.php
+++ b/code/DocumentationHelper.php
@@ -92,4 +92,20 @@ class DocumentationHelper
 
         return null;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Helper function to normalize paths to unix style directory separators
+     * 
+     * @param string
+     * 
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public static function normalizePath($path)
+    {
+        if (DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR != '/') {
+            return str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, '/', $path);
+        }
+        
+        return $path;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/code/DocumentationManifest.php b/code/DocumentationManifest.php
index 632b3ff..bba6692 100644
--- a/code/DocumentationManifest.php
+++ b/code/DocumentationManifest.php
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class DocumentationManifest
                             'DocumentationEntity', $key
                         );
 
-                        $entity->setPath(Controller::join_links($path, $lang, '/'));
+                        $entity->setPath(DocumentationHelper::normalizePath(Controller::join_links($path, $lang, '/')));
                         $entity->setTitle($details['Title']);
                         $entity->setLanguage($lang);
                         $entity->setVersion($version);
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ class DocumentationManifest
 
     public function getRealPath($path)
     {
-        if (substr($path, 0, 1) != '/') {
+        if (!Director::is_absolute($path)) {
             $path = Controller::join_links(BASE_PATH, $path);
         }
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class DocumentationManifest
                 continue;
             }
 
-            $dir = Controller::join_links(BASE_PATH, $entity);
+            $dir = DocumentationHelper::normalizePath(Controller::join_links(BASE_PATH, $entity));
 
             if (is_dir($dir)) {
                 // check to see if it has docs
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ class DocumentationManifest
         $this->pages[$link] = array(
             'title' => $page->getTitle(),
             'basename' => $basename,
-            'filepath' => $path,
+            'filepath' => DocumentationHelper::normalizePath($path),
             'type' => get_class($page),
             'entitypath' => $this->entity->getPath(),
             'summary' => $page->getSummary()
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ class DocumentationManifest
         $base = Config::inst()->get('DocumentationViewer', 'link_base');
         $entityPath = $this->normalizeUrl($entityPath);
         $recordPath = $this->normalizeUrl($recordPath);
-        $recordParts = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, trim($recordPath, '/'));
+        $recordParts = explode('/', trim($recordPath, '/'));
         $currentRecordPath = end($recordParts);
         $depth = substr_count($entityPath, '/');
 
@@ -640,8 +640,8 @@ class DocumentationManifest
             }
 
             // only pull it up if it's one more level depth
-            if (substr_count($pagePath, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) == ($depth + 1)) {
-                $pagePathParts = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, trim($pagePath, '/'));
+            if (substr_count($pagePath, '/') == ($depth + 1)) {
+                $pagePathParts = explode('/', trim($pagePath, '/'));
                 $currentPagePath = end($pagePathParts);
                 if ($currentPagePath == $currentRecordPath) {
                     $mode = 'current';
diff --git a/code/DocumentationParser.php b/code/DocumentationParser.php
index 35a9aa5..085cc16 100755
--- a/code/DocumentationParser.php
+++ b/code/DocumentationParser.php
@@ -440,12 +440,12 @@ class DocumentationParser
         
         // relative path (relative to module base folder), without the filename.
         // For "sapphire/en/current/topics/templates", this would be "templates"
-        $relativePath = dirname($page->getRelativePath());
+        $relativePath = DocumentationHelper::normalizePath(dirname($page->getRelativePath()));
 
         if (strpos($page->getRelativePath(), 'index.md')) {
             $relativeLink = $page->getRelativeLink();
         } else {
-            $relativeLink = dirname($page->getRelativeLink());
+            $relativeLink = DocumentationHelper::normalizePath(dirname($page->getRelativeLink()));
         }
 
         if ($relativePath == '.') {
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ class DocumentationParser
         }
         
         // file base link
-        $fileBaseLink = Director::makeRelative(dirname($page->getPath()));
+        $fileBaseLink = DocumentationHelper::normalizePath(Director::makeRelative(dirname($page->getPath())));
         
         if ($matches) {
             foreach ($matches[0] as $i => $match) {
diff --git a/code/models/DocumentationPage.php b/code/models/DocumentationPage.php
index 125589a..e481da7 100755
--- a/code/models/DocumentationPage.php
+++ b/code/models/DocumentationPage.php
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class DocumentationPage extends ViewableData
         if ($folder == $entity) {
             return $this->getEntity()->getTitle();
         } else {
-            $path = explode(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, trim($folder, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR));
+            $path = explode('/', trim($folder, '/'));
             $folderName = array_pop($path);
         }