diff --git a/lib/Plerd.pm b/lib/Plerd.pm
index eba0ec5..31ac8e3 100644
--- a/lib/Plerd.pm
+++ b/lib/Plerd.pm
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ sub publish_recent_page {
         $self->publication_directory, "index.html.$$.tmp"
     );
     $temp_link->remove if -e $temp_link || -l $temp_link;
-    if ( symlink $self->recent_file, $temp_link ) {
+    if ( symlink $self->recent_file->basename, $temp_link ) {
         rename "$temp_link", "$index_file"
             or warn "Couldn't move the index.html symlink into place: $!\n";
     }
diff --git a/t/index_symlink.t b/t/index_symlink.t
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9df7af3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/index_symlink.t
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+use warnings;
+use strict;
+use Test::More;
+use Path::Class::Dir;
+use Path::Class::File;
+use URI;
+
+use FindBin;
+use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
+
+use_ok( 'Plerd' );
+use Plerd::Init;
+
+# Regression test for GitHub issue #54: the docroot/index.html symlink must
+# point at its sibling "recent.html" by basename, not at a path that includes
+# the docroot directory. A target like "docroot/recent.html" resolves to
+# docroot/docroot/recent.html from inside docroot and leaves index.html broken.
+
+my $blog_dir = Path::Class::Dir->new( "$FindBin::Bin/index_symlink_blog" );
+$blog_dir->rmtree;
+Plerd::Init::initialize( $blog_dir->stringify, 0 );
+
+Path::Class::File->new( $blog_dir, 'source', '2021-01-01-hello.md' )->spew(
+    iomode => '>:encoding(utf8)',
+    "title: Hello\n\nBody.\n",
+);
+
+my $plerd = Plerd->new(
+    path         => $blog_dir->stringify,
+    title        => 'Test Blog',
+    author_name  => 'Nobody',
+    author_email => 'nobody@example.com',
+    base_uri     => URI->new( 'http://blog.example.com/' ),
+);
+
+$plerd->publish_all;
+
+my $index = Path::Class::File->new( $blog_dir, 'docroot', 'index.html' );
+
+ok( -l $index, 'docroot/index.html is a symlink.' );
+is( readlink( "$index" ), 'recent.html',
+    'index.html points at its sibling recent.html by basename.' );
+ok( -e $index, 'index.html resolves to an existing file.' );
+
+$blog_dir->rmtree;
+
+done_testing();