diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/kerberos-authentication-plugin.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/kerberos-authentication-plugin.adoc
index a6ae946babc..49e19e82ebc 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/kerberos-authentication-plugin.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/kerberos-authentication-plugin.adoc
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ To create a `CloudSolrClient` that uses delegation tokens:
 [source,java]
 ----
 CloudSolrClient client = new CloudSolrClient.Builder()
-                .withZkHost("http://localhost:2181")
+                .withZkHost("localhost:2181")
                 .withLBHttpSolrClientBuilder(new LBHttpSolrClient.Builder()
                     .withResponseParser(client.getParser())
                     .withHttpSolrClientBuilder(