diff --git a/Lib/http/server.py b/Lib/http/server.py
index 8acabff605e795..221c8be4ae4b8f 100644
--- a/Lib/http/server.py
+++ b/Lib/http/server.py
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ def send_head(self):
return None
for index in self.index_pages:
index = os.path.join(path, index)
- if os.path.exists(index):
+ if os.path.isfile(index):
path = index
break
else:
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index ca078862cca6b9..cbcf94136ac4eb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -489,6 +489,9 @@ def test_get(self):
self.check_status_and_reason(response, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND)
response = self.request('/' + 'ThisDoesNotExist' + '/')
self.check_status_and_reason(response, HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND)
+ os.makedirs(os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'spam', 'index.html'))
+ response = self.request(self.base_url + '/spam/')
+ self.check_status_and_reason(response, HTTPStatus.OK)
data = b"Dummy index file\r\n"
with open(os.path.join(self.tempdir_name, 'index.html'), 'wb') as f:
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-12-23-21-02-43.gh-issue-100474.gppA4U.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-12-23-21-02-43.gh-issue-100474.gppA4U.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..31abfb8b87fbee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-12-23-21-02-43.gh-issue-100474.gppA4U.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+:mod:`http.server` now checks that an index page is actually a regular file before trying
+to serve it. This avoids issues with directories named ``index.html``.
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