diff --git a/packages/server/lib/routes-ct.ts b/packages/server/lib/routes-ct.ts
index 820a7c005c41..36a563f97854 100644
--- a/packages/server/lib/routes-ct.ts
+++ b/packages/server/lib/routes-ct.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import Debug from 'debug'
 import { Request, Response, Router } from 'express'
 import send from 'send'
 import { getPathToDist } from '@packages/resolve-dist'
-import { runner } from './controllers/runner'
 import type { InitializeRoutes } from './routes'
 
 const debug = Debug('cypress:server:routes-ct')
@@ -15,12 +14,7 @@ const serveChunk = (req: Request, res: Response, clientRoute: string) => {
 
 export const createRoutesCT = ({
   config,
-  specsStore,
   nodeProxy,
-  getCurrentBrowser,
-  testingType,
-  getSpec,
-  getRemoteState,
 }: InitializeRoutes) => {
   const routesCt = Router()
 
@@ -38,26 +32,13 @@ export const createRoutesCT = ({
     })
   })
 
+  // enables runner-ct to make a dynamic import
   const clientRoute = config.clientRoute
 
   if (!clientRoute) {
     throw Error(`clientRoute is required. Received ${clientRoute}`)
   }
 
-  routesCt.get(clientRoute, (req, res) => {
-    debug('Serving Cypress front-end by requested URL:', req.url)
-
-    runner.serve(req, res, 'runner-ct', {
-      config,
-      testingType,
-      getSpec,
-      getCurrentBrowser,
-      getRemoteState,
-      specsStore,
-    })
-  })
-
-  // enables runner-ct to make a dynamic import
   routesCt.get([
     `${clientRoute}ctChunk-*`,
     `${clientRoute}vendors~ctChunk-*`,
diff --git a/packages/server/lib/routes-e2e.ts b/packages/server/lib/routes-e2e.ts
index 06252524b0a6..c358131a1c62 100644
--- a/packages/server/lib/routes-e2e.ts
+++ b/packages/server/lib/routes-e2e.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 import path from 'path'
-import la from 'lazy-ass'
-import check from 'check-more-types'
 import Debug from 'debug'
 import { Router } from 'express'
 
@@ -8,7 +6,6 @@ import AppData from './util/app_data'
 import CacheBuster from './util/cache_buster'
 import specController from './controllers/spec'
 import reporter from './controllers/reporter'
-import { runner } from './controllers/runner'
 import client from './controllers/client'
 import files from './controllers/files'
 import type { InitializeRoutes } from './routes'
@@ -17,13 +14,8 @@ const debug = Debug('cypress:server:routes-e2e')
 
 export const createRoutesE2E = ({
   config,
-  specsStore,
-  getRemoteState,
   networkProxy,
-  getSpec,
-  getCurrentBrowser,
   onError,
-  testingType,
 }: InitializeRoutes) => {
   const routesE2E = Router()
 
@@ -137,20 +129,5 @@ export const createRoutesE2E = ({
     res.sendFile(file, { etag: false })
   })
 
-  la(check.unemptyString(config.clientRoute), 'missing client route in config', config)
-
-  routesE2E.get(`${config.clientRoute}`, (req, res) => {
-    debug('Serving Cypress front-end by requested URL:', req.url)
-
-    runner.serve(req, res, 'runner', {
-      config,
-      testingType,
-      getSpec,
-      getCurrentBrowser,
-      getRemoteState,
-      specsStore,
-    })
-  })
-
   return routesE2E
 }
diff --git a/packages/server/lib/routes.ts b/packages/server/lib/routes.ts
index 48bf6d57dca0..96afe4c83fe4 100644
--- a/packages/server/lib/routes.ts
+++ b/packages/server/lib/routes.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import type httpProxy from 'http-proxy'
+import Debug from 'debug'
 import { ErrorRequestHandler, Router } from 'express'
 
 import type { SpecsStore } from './specs-store'
@@ -9,6 +10,8 @@ import xhrs from './controllers/xhrs'
 import { runner } from './controllers/runner'
 import { iframesController } from './controllers/iframes'
 
+const debug = Debug('cypress:server:routes')
+
 export interface InitializeRoutes {
   specsStore: SpecsStore
   config: Cfg
@@ -26,6 +29,8 @@ export const createCommonRoutes = ({
   networkProxy,
   testingType,
   getSpec,
+  getCurrentBrowser,
+  specsStore,
   getRemoteState,
   nodeProxy,
 }: InitializeRoutes) => {
@@ -49,6 +54,25 @@ export const createCommonRoutes = ({
     }
   })
 
+  const clientRoute = config.clientRoute
+
+  if (!clientRoute) {
+    throw Error(`clientRoute is required. Received ${clientRoute}`)
+  }
+
+  router.get(clientRoute, (req, res) => {
+    debug('Serving Cypress front-end by requested URL:', req.url)
+
+    runner.serve(req, res, testingType === 'e2e' ? 'runner' : 'runner-ct', {
+      config,
+      testingType,
+      getSpec,
+      getCurrentBrowser,
+      getRemoteState,
+      specsStore,
+    })
+  })
+
   router.all('*', (req, res) => {
     networkProxy.handleHttpRequest(req, res)
   })