diff --git a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_handler.c b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_handler.c
index 19de209cb..78a058b63 100644
--- a/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_handler.c
+++ b/src/http/modules/ngx_http_index_handler.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ ngx_module_t  ngx_http_index_module = {
 /*
    Try to open first index file before the test of the directory existence
    because the valid requests should be many more then invalid ones.
-   If open() is failed then stat() should be more quickly because some data
+   If open() failed then stat() should be more quickly because some data
    is already cached in the kernel.  Besides Win32 has ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND
    and Unix has ENOTDIR error (although it less helpfull).
 */