diff --git a/qa/tasks/mgr/test_dashboard.py b/qa/tasks/mgr/test_dashboard.py
index b0cf200d61b..783c492d3f2 100644
--- a/qa/tasks/mgr/test_dashboard.py
+++ b/qa/tasks/mgr/test_dashboard.py
@@ -49,11 +49,18 @@ class TestDashboard(MgrTestCase):
         self.assertNotEqual(original_uri, failed_over_uri)
 
         # The original active daemon should have come back up as a standby
-        # and be doing redirects to the new active daemon
+        # and be doing redirects to the new active daemon.
         r = requests.get(original_uri, allow_redirects=False, verify=False)
         self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 303)
         self.assertEqual(r.headers['Location'], failed_over_uri)
 
+        # Ensure that every URL redirects to the active daemon.
+        r = requests.get("{}/runtime.js".format(original_uri),
+                         allow_redirects=False,
+                         verify=False)
+        self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 303)
+        self.assertEqual(r.headers['Location'], failed_over_uri)
+
     def test_standby_disable_redirect(self):
         self.mgr_cluster.mon_manager.raw_cluster_cmd("config", "set", "mgr",
                                                      "mgr/dashboard/standby_behaviour",
diff --git a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/module.py b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/module.py
index b080d17b0ac..dcfa42fcaa9 100644
--- a/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/module.py
+++ b/src/pybind/mgr/dashboard/module.py
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ class StandbyModule(MgrStandbyModule, CherryPyConfig):
 
         class Root(object):
             @cherrypy.expose
-            def index(self):
+            def default(self, *args, **kwargs):
                 if module.get_module_option('standby_behaviour', 'redirect') == 'redirect':
                     active_uri = module.get_active_uri()
                     if active_uri: