--- a/index.t
+++ b/index.t
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use Test::Nginx;
 select STDERR; $| = 1;
 select STDOUT; $| = 1;
 
-my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http/)->plan(7)
+my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http/)->plan(8)
 	->write_file_expand('nginx.conf', <<'EOF');
 
 %%TEST_GLOBALS%%
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@ http {
             index $server_name.html;
         }
 
+        location /va2/ {
+            alias %%TESTDIR%%/;
+            # before 1.13.8, the token produced emerg:
+            # directive "index" is not terminated by ";"
+            index ${server_name}.html;
+        }
+
         location /var_redirect/ {
             index /$server_name.html;
         }
@@ -90,6 +97,7 @@ like(http_get('/redirect/'), qr/X-URI: \
 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('/va2/'), qr/X-URI: \/va2\/localhost.html.*varbody/ms, 'var 2');
 like(http_get('/var_redirect/'), qr/X-URI: \/localhost.html.*varbody/ms,
 	'var with redirect');
 

deleted file mode 100644
--- a/index2.t
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-
-# (C) Sergey Kandaurov
-# (C) Nginx, Inc.
-
-# Tests for index module, which is a helper for testing
-# configuration token that starts with a variable.
-
-###############################################################################
-
-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(1)
-	->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 /var/ {
-            alias %%TESTDIR%%/;
-            index ${server_name}html;
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-EOF
-
-$t->write_file('localhosthtml', 'varbody');
-
-$t->run();
-
-###############################################################################
-
-like(http_get('/var/'), qr/X-URI: \/var\/localhosthtml.*varbody/ms, 'var');
-
-###############################################################################