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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# (C) Sergey Kandaurov
+# (C) Nginx, Inc.
+
+# Tests for index module.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+
+use Test::More;
+
+BEGIN { use FindBin; chdir($FindBin::Bin); }
+
+use lib 'lib';
+use Test::Nginx;
+
+###############################################################################
+
+select STDERR; $| = 1;
+select STDOUT; $| = 1;
+
+my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http/)->plan(7)
+	->write_file_expand('nginx.conf', <<'EOF');
+
+%%TEST_GLOBALS%%
+
+daemon off;
+
+events {
+}
+
+http {
+    %%TEST_GLOBALS_HTTP%%
+
+    server {
+        listen       127.0.0.1:8080;
+        server_name  localhost;
+        add_header   X-URI $uri;
+
+        location / {
+            # index index.html by default
+        }
+
+        location /redirect/ {
+            index /re.html;
+        }
+
+        location /loop/ {
+            index /loop/;
+        }
+
+        location /no_index/ {
+            alias %%TESTDIR%%/;
+            index nonexisting.html;
+        }
+
+        location /many/ {
+            alias %%TESTDIR%%/;
+            index nonexisting.html many.html;
+        }
+
+        location /var/ {
+            alias %%TESTDIR%%/;
+            index $server_name.html;
+        }
+
+        location /var_redirect/ {
+            index /$server_name.html;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+EOF
+
+$t->write_file('index.html', 'body');
+$t->write_file('many.html', 'manybody');
+$t->write_file('re.html', 'rebody');
+$t->write_file('localhost.html', 'varbody');
+
+$t->run();
+
+###############################################################################
+
+like(http_get('/'), qr/X-URI: \/index.html.*body/ms, 'default index');
+like(http_get('/no_index/'), qr/403 Forbidden/, 'no index');
+like(http_get('/redirect/'), qr/X-URI: \/re.html.*rebody/ms, 'redirect');
+like(http_get('/loop/'), qr/500 Internal/, 'redirect loop');
+like(http_get('/many/'), qr/X-URI: \/many\/many.html.*manybody/ms, 'many');
+like(http_get('/var/'), qr/X-URI: \/var\/localhost.html.*varbody/ms, 'var');
+like(http_get('/var_redirect/'), qr/X-URI: \/localhost.html.*varbody/ms,
+	'var with redirect');
+
+###############################################################################