diff --git a/backend/archive/archive.go b/backend/archive/archive.go
index 20cca571a..ec0e6c36c 100644
--- a/backend/archive/archive.go
+++ b/backend/archive/archive.go
@@ -185,8 +185,12 @@ func NewFs(ctx context.Context, name, root string, m configmap.Mapper) (outFs fs
 	foundArchive := subArchive(remote)
 	if foundArchive != nil {
 		fs.Debugf(nil, "Found archiver for %q remote %q", foundArchive.archiver.Extension, foundArchive.remote)
-		// Archive path
-		foundArchive.root = strings.Trim(remote[len(foundArchive.remote):], "/")
+		// Archive path, in canonical form so that it compares equal
+		// to the cleaned entry names inside the archive
+		foundArchive.root = strings.Trim(path.Clean(remote[len(foundArchive.remote):]), "/")
+		if foundArchive.root == "." {
+			foundArchive.root = ""
+		}
 		// Path to the archive
 		archiveRemote := remote[:len(foundArchive.remote)]
 		// Remote is archive leaf name
diff --git a/backend/archive/archive_internal_test.go b/backend/archive/archive_internal_test.go
index 0866b7dec..f0ea6a253 100644
--- a/backend/archive/archive_internal_test.go
+++ b/backend/archive/archive_internal_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 package archive
 
 import (
+	"archive/zip"
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
@@ -277,3 +278,32 @@ func TestArchiveSquashfsIssue9004(t *testing.T) {
 		assert.True(t, bytes.HasPrefix(data, []byte("<?xml")))
 	})
 }
+
+// TestArchiveUncleanRoot checks that a path into an archive which isn't
+// in canonical form (with "./" or doubled slashes) still finds its
+// directory.
+func TestArchiveUncleanRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	fstest.Initialise()
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	zw := zip.NewWriter(&buf)
+	w, err := zw.Create("sub/dir/a.txt")
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	_, err = w.Write([]byte("data"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.NoError(t, zw.Close())
+	zipPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.zip")
+	require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(zipPath, buf.Bytes(), 0600))
+
+	for _, root := range []string{"sub/dir", "sub/./dir", "sub//dir", "./sub/dir/", "sub/dir/."} {
+		t.Run(root, func(t *testing.T) {
+			f, err := cache.Get(ctx, ":archive:"+zipPath+"/"+root)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			entries, err := f.List(ctx, "")
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			require.Len(t, entries, 1)
+			assert.Equal(t, "a.txt", entries[0].Remote())
+		})
+	}
+}