diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJena.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJena.java
index 949ad8862..2c36c99ba 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJena.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJena.java
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ public class MenuDaoJena extends JenaBaseDao implements MenuDao {
 
  
     protected boolean isActive(String url, String link){
-        if( "/".equals(url) )
-            return "/".equals(link);
+        if( "/".equals(link) )                    
+            return "/".equals(url);
         else
             return url.startsWith(link);
     }
diff --git a/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJenaTest.java b/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJenaTest.java
index c398c2d7b..d515c3e86 100644
--- a/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJenaTest.java
+++ b/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/jena/MenuDaoJenaTest.java
@@ -88,4 +88,20 @@ public class MenuDaoJenaTest extends AbstractTestClass {
         Assert.assertEquals("Organizations",item.getLinkText());
         Assert.assertEquals("bogusUrlContextPath/organizations",item.getUrl());
     }
+    
+    
+    @Test
+    public void isActiveTest(){
+        SimpleOntModelSelector sos = new SimpleOntModelSelector( ModelFactory.createOntologyModel(OntModelSpec.OWL_DL_MEM));
+        sos.setDisplayModel(displayModel);
+        MenuDaoJena menuDaoJena = new MenuDaoJena(new WebappDaoFactoryJena(sos));                 
+        
+        //First arg is the page the user is on.  Second arg is the urlmapping of the menu item.
+        Assert.assertTrue( menuDaoJena.isActive("/", "/") );
+        Assert.assertTrue( menuDaoJena.isActive("/people", "/people") );
+        
+        Assert.assertFalse( menuDaoJena.isActive("/people", "/") );
+        Assert.assertFalse( menuDaoJena.isActive("/", "/people") );
+        
+    }
 }