diff --git a/src/runtime/server/transformers/path-meta.ts b/src/runtime/server/transformers/path-meta.ts
index 61c03f6b9..ea73f6d74 100644
--- a/src/runtime/server/transformers/path-meta.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/server/transformers/path-meta.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ export function refineUrlPart (name: string): string {
   if (SEMVER_REGEX.test(name)) {
     return name
   }
+
   return (
     name
       /**
@@ -91,10 +92,10 @@ export function refineUrlPart (name: string): string {
       /**
        * Remove index keyword
        */
-      .replace(/^index/, '')
+      .replace(/^index(\.draft)?$/, '')
       /**
        * Remove draft keyword
        */
-      .replace(/\.draft/, '')
+      .replace(/\.draft$/, '')
   )
 }
diff --git a/test/features/transformer-path-meta.ts b/test/features/transformer-path-meta.ts
index 1d02e87a9..bfbd8c099 100644
--- a/test/features/transformer-path-meta.ts
+++ b/test/features/transformer-path-meta.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,20 @@ const testCases = {
     _draft: false,
     _partial: false,
     _path: '/one/fileparamvaluehash'
+  },
+  'content:indexer.md': {
+    __description: 'non-index file with index substring',
+    title: 'Indexer',
+    _draft: false,
+    _partial: false,
+    _path: '/indexer'
+  },
+  'content:indexer.draft.md': {
+    __description: 'non-index file with index substring',
+    title: 'Indexer',
+    _draft: true,
+    _partial: false,
+    _path: '/indexer'
   }
 }