diff --git a/mercurial/templates/coal/map b/mercurial/templates/coal/map
--- a/mercurial/templates/coal/map
+++ b/mercurial/templates/coal/map
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ indexarchiveentry = '<a href="{url|urles
 index = ../paper/index.tmpl
 archiveentry = '
   <li>
-    <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension|urlescape}">{type|escape}</a>
+    <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension|urlescape}{ifeq(path,'/','',path|urlescape)}">{type|escape}</a>
   </li>'
 notfound = ../paper/notfound.tmpl
 error = ../paper/error.tmpl
diff --git a/mercurial/templates/gitweb/map b/mercurial/templates/gitweb/map
--- a/mercurial/templates/gitweb/map
+++ b/mercurial/templates/gitweb/map
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ filelogentry = '
     <td class="link">
       <a href="{url|urlescape}file/{node|short}/{file|urlescape}{sessionvars%urlparameter}">file</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="{url|urlescape}diff/{node|short}/{file|urlescape}{sessionvars%urlparameter}">diff</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="{url|urlescape}annotate/{node|short}/{file|urlescape}{sessionvars%urlparameter}">annotate</a> {rename%filelogrename}</td>
     </tr>'
-archiveentry = ' | <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension}">{type|escape}</a> '
+archiveentry = ' | <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension}{ifeq(path,'/','',path|urlescape)}">{type|escape}</a> '
 indexentry = '
   <tr class="parity{parity}">
     <td>
diff --git a/mercurial/templates/monoblue/map b/mercurial/templates/monoblue/map
--- a/mercurial/templates/monoblue/map
+++ b/mercurial/templates/monoblue/map
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ filelogentry = '
       {rename%filelogrename}
     </td>
   </tr>'
-archiveentry = '<li><a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension}">{type|escape}</a></li>'
+archiveentry = '<li><a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension}{ifeq(path,'/','',path|urlescape)}">{type|escape}</a></li>'
 indexentry = '
   <tr class="parity{parity}">
     <td><a href="{url|urlescape}{sessionvars%urlparameter}">{name|escape}</a></td>
diff --git a/mercurial/templates/paper/map b/mercurial/templates/paper/map
--- a/mercurial/templates/paper/map
+++ b/mercurial/templates/paper/map
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ indexarchiveentry = '<a href="{url|urles
 index = index.tmpl
 archiveentry = '
   <li>
-    <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension|urlescape}">{type|escape}</a>
+    <a href="{url|urlescape}archive/{node|short}{extension|urlescape}{ifeq(path,'/','',path|urlescape)}">{type|escape}</a>
   </li>'
 notfound = notfound.tmpl
 error = error.tmpl