diff --git a/charts/reuse-surface/templates/ingress.yaml b/charts/reuse-surface/templates/ingress.yaml
index 12e2d33..5e58f13 100644
--- a/charts/reuse-surface/templates/ingress.yaml
+++ b/charts/reuse-surface/templates/ingress.yaml
@@ -28,13 +28,7 @@ spec:
                 port:
                   number: {{ $.Values.service.port }}
           {{- end }}
-          - path: /
-            pathType: Prefix
-            backend:
-              service:
-                name: {{ include "reuse.landingFullname" . }}
-                port:
-                  number: {{ .Values.landing.service.port }}
+          {{- /* the landing catch-all is a separate Ingress; see landing-ingress.yaml */}}
           {{- else }}
           - path: /
             pathType: Prefix
diff --git a/charts/reuse-surface/templates/landing-ingress.yaml b/charts/reuse-surface/templates/landing-ingress.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..872860b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/charts/reuse-surface/templates/landing-ingress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+{{- if and .Values.ingress.enabled .Values.landing.enabled }}
+{{- /*
+  The landing catch-all lives in its own Ingress so it can carry an explicit
+  Traefik router priority.
+
+  Traefik derives router priority from the length of the generated rule string.
+  With the catch-all in the same Ingress as the API paths, Path(`/health`) and
+  PathPrefix(`/`) are both 15 characters — an exact tie, broken arbitrarily, and
+  in practice the landing nginx won and /health returned 404 through the ingress
+  while the service answered 200 in-cluster. PathPrefix(`/v1`) is longer, so /v1
+  was unaffected, which is why the fault looked like a /health-only bug.
+
+  An explicit low priority here keeps the browser landing page as a true
+  fallback: every API route outranks it regardless of rule length.
+*/}}
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "reuse.landingFullname" . }}
+  labels: {{- include "reuse.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+  annotations:
+    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.entrypoints: websecure
+    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.tls: "true"
+    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.priority: {{ .Values.landing.ingress.priority | quote }}
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: {{ .Values.ingress.className }}
+  {{- if .Values.ingress.tls }}
+  tls:
+    - hosts:
+        - {{ .Values.ingress.host }}
+      secretName: {{ include "reuse.fullname" . }}-tls
+  {{- end }}
+  rules:
+    - host: {{ .Values.ingress.host }}
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - path: /
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: {{ include "reuse.landingFullname" . }}
+                port:
+                  number: {{ .Values.landing.service.port }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/reuse-surface/values.yaml b/charts/reuse-surface/values.yaml
index e0b68c8..fb54e76 100644
--- a/charts/reuse-surface/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/reuse-surface/values.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ landing:
   service:
     port: 8080
     targetPort: 8080
+  ingress:
+    # Explicit Traefik router priority for the landing catch-all. Traefik
+    # otherwise derives priority from rule-string length, where PathPrefix(`/`)
+    # ties with Path(`/health`) and can win. Keep this below every API route.
+    priority: 1
   noindex: true
   title: "Railiance service endpoint"
   eyebrow: "Railiance S5"