diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app-external.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app-external.test.ts
index bfb87282e2c85..87fc03136b653 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app-external.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app-external.test.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ createNextDescribe(
     buildCommand: 'yarn build',
     skipDeployment: true,
   },
-  ({ next, isNextStart }) => {
+  ({ next }) => {
     it('should be able to opt-out 3rd party packages being bundled in server components', async () => {
       await next.fetch('/react-server/optout').then(async (response) => {
         const result = await resolveStreamResponse(response)
@@ -246,15 +246,13 @@ createNextDescribe(
     })
 
     it('should have proper tree-shaking for known modules in CJS', async () => {
-      const html = await next.render('/test-middleware')
-      expect(html).toContain('it works')
+      const html = await next.render('/cjs/server')
+      expect(html).toContain('resolve response')
 
-      if (isNextStart) {
-        const middlewareBundle = await next.readFile(
-          '.next/server/middleware.js'
-        )
-        expect(middlewareBundle).not.toContain('image-response')
-      }
+      const outputFile = await next.readFile(
+        '.next/server/app/cjs/server/page.js'
+      )
+      expect(outputFile).not.toContain('image-response')
     })
 
     it('should use the same async storages if imported directly', async () => {
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app/cjs/server/page.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app/cjs/server/page.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f8fba4761b8ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/app/cjs/server/page.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import { createResponse } from 'next-server-cjs-lib'
+
+export default async function Page() {
+  const response = createResponse('resolve response')
+  const text = await response.text()
+  return <p>{text}</p>
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/middleware.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/middleware.js
index e333cde8a9e7c..61a7183fac735 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/middleware.js
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/app-external/middleware.js
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-import { createResponse } from 'next-server-cjs-lib'
 import { respond } from 'compat-next-server-module'
 
 export async function middleware(request) {
-  if (request.nextUrl.pathname === '/test-middleware') {
-    return createResponse('it works')
-  }
-
   return await respond()
 }