Zuul Reverse Proxy Language Understanding

I play with Zuul, but there seems to be something fundamental I don't understand.

In the documentation ( http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/spring-cloud-netflix.html ) The following Zuul config is to redirect all HTTP calls to "/ myusers" to "users".

zuul:
  routes:
      users: /myusers/**

      

        
        
        
      

    

I have a similar scenario but it just doesn't work. My config:

zuul:
   route:
       stores: /california/**

      

        
        
        
      

    

The service id is "store" and has a URL called "/ hello". When I hit:

 http://localhost:8765/california/hello, 

      

        
        
        
      

    

I get a Spring Boot 404 error. However, everything works very well if I replace california with stores, which results in the following configuration:

zuul:
   route:
       stores: /stores/**

      

        
        
        
      

    

In this case, if I call

 http://localhost:8765/stores/hello, 

      

        
        
        
      

    

Everything works perfectly. So it looks like the URL prefix should match the service id. Is this the expected behavior? What am I missing?

I am using Zuul 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. In aisde's note, I noticed that the discovery client is now built into Zuul. Is there a way to disable it if I don't want to run Eureka?