diff --git a/docs-site/app/pages/index.vue b/docs-site/app/pages/index.vue
index d366061..60dbc5f 100644
--- a/docs-site/app/pages/index.vue
+++ b/docs-site/app/pages/index.vue
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
-import type { Collections } from '@nuxt/content'
 
 // Hardcode path to '/' so it is never affected by NUXT_APP_BASE_URL at runtime.
 const { data: page } = await useAsyncData('landing', () =>
-  queryCollection('landing' as keyof Collections).path('/').first(),
+  queryCollection('landing').path('/').first(),
 )
 
 if (!page.value) {
diff --git a/docs-site/content.config.ts b/docs-site/content.config.ts
index cffc925..c0f6b47 100644
--- a/docs-site/content.config.ts
+++ b/docs-site/content.config.ts
@@ -1,21 +1,30 @@
 import { defineContentConfig, defineCollection } from '@nuxt/content'
+import { useNuxt } from '@nuxt/kit'
+import { joinURL } from 'ufo'
 
 /**
  * Local content configuration for uPKI-RA docs.
  *
  * We only declare the `landing` collection here (content/index.md).
- * The `docs` collection (content/docs/**) is handled by the Docus layer,
- * which appends its own content.config.ts definition at a lower priority.
+ * The `docs` collection (content/docs/**) is handled by the Docus layer.
  *
- * Declaring `landing` here prevents the Docus layer from attempting to
- * register it via useNuxt() at top-level, which can fail silently
- * in Docker/CI build environments.
+ * We use an explicit `cwd` (mirroring the Docus layer pattern) to ensure
+ * @nuxt/content resolves `index.md` from THIS project's content/ directory
+ * rather than leaving it ambiguous in the layer stack. Without it, since
+ * Docus PR #1274 no longer defines the landing collection when index.vue
+ * exists, the collection ends up empty and the landing page returns 404.
  */
+const { options } = useNuxt()
+const cwd = joinURL(options.rootDir, 'content')
+
 export default defineContentConfig({
   collections: {
     landing: defineCollection({
       type: 'page',
-      source: 'index.md',
+      source: {
+        cwd,
+        include: 'index.md',
+      },
     }),
   },
 })