diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.test.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.test.ts
index d55f79bf0a2..05fc77d40fc 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.test.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.test.ts
@@ -1038,33 +1038,34 @@ describe("getUiConfig runtime backend discovery", () => {
     return { networking, mockFetch };
   };
 
-  it.each(["https://backend.example.com", "https://backend.example.com/api-prefix"])(
-    "loads prefixed static configuration independently of the selected worker and API base %s",
-    async (backendBase) => {
-      const mockFetch = vi
-        .fn()
-        .mockResolvedValueOnce({
-          ok: true,
-          json: async () => ({ backend_url: backendBase }),
-        } as Response)
-        .mockResolvedValueOnce({
-          ok: true,
-          json: async () => ({ ...discoveryConfig(), server_root_path: "/services/llm" }),
-        } as Response);
-      vi.stubGlobal("fetch", mockFetch);
-      const networking = await loadFreshNetworking();
-      const { setServerRootPath } = await import("@/lib/serverRootPath");
-      setServerRootPath("/services/llm");
-      networking.switchToWorkerUrl("https://worker.example.com/worker-mount");
+  it.each([
+    ["https://backend.example.com", "/services/llm"],
+    ["https://backend.example.com/api-prefix", "/services/llm"],
+    ["https://backend.example.com", "/services/llm/"],
+  ])("loads static configuration from backend %s under normalized UI prefix %s", async (backendBase, uiPrefix) => {
+    const mockFetch = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({ backend_url: backendBase }),
+      } as Response)
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce({
+        ok: true,
+        json: async () => ({ ...discoveryConfig(), server_root_path: "/services/llm" }),
+      } as Response);
+    vi.stubGlobal("fetch", mockFetch);
+    const networking = await loadFreshNetworking();
+    const { setServerRootPath } = await import("@/lib/serverRootPath");
+    setServerRootPath(uiPrefix);
+    networking.switchToWorkerUrl("https://worker.example.com/worker-mount");
 
-      await networking.getUiConfig();
+    await networking.getUiConfig();
 
-      expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, "/services/llm/ui/litellm-runtime-config.json", {
-        cache: "no-store",
-      });
-      expect(mockFetch.mock.calls[1][0]).toBe(`${backendBase}/litellm/.well-known/litellm-ui-config`);
-    },
-  );
+    expect(mockFetch).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, "/services/llm/ui/litellm-runtime-config.json", {
+      cache: "no-store",
+    });
+    expect(mockFetch.mock.calls[1][0]).toBe(`${backendBase}/litellm/.well-known/litellm-ui-config`);
+  });
 
   it("discovers the control plane under the UI prefix when no static backend is configured", async () => {
     const mockFetch = vi
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.tsx b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.tsx
index 2c247206b4b..7eb60c464b3 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.tsx
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/components/networking.tsx
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ import {
   registerBaseUrlGetter,
   registerErrorHandler,
 } from "@/lib/http/runtime";
+import { withServerRoot } from "@/lib/assetPaths";
 import { serverRootPath, setServerRootPath } from "@/lib/serverRootPath";
 
 export { serverRootPath };
@@ -566,10 +567,9 @@ export const getUiConfig = async () => {
     : await (async (): Promise<string | null> => {
         try {
           // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax -- read the UI static config before the API origin is known
-          const response = await fetch(
-            `${serverRootPath === "/" ? "" : serverRootPath}/ui/litellm-runtime-config.json`,
-            { cache: "no-store" },
-          );
+          const response = await fetch(withServerRoot("/ui/litellm-runtime-config.json", serverRootPath), {
+            cache: "no-store",
+          });
           if (!response.ok) return null;
           const runtimeConfig: unknown = await response.json();
           if (