diff --git a/docs/reference/how-to/general.asciidoc b/docs/reference/how-to/general.asciidoc
index ee876eb3843..b78ef63b4c8 100644
--- a/docs/reference/how-to/general.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/how-to/general.asciidoc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use the <<search-request-scroll,Scroll>> API.
 [[maximum-document-size]]
 === Avoid large documents
 
-Given that the default <<modules-http,`http.max_context_length`>> is set to
+Given that the default <<modules-http,`http.max_content_length`>> is set to
 100MB, Elasticsearch will refuse to index any document that is larger than
 that. You might decide to increase that particular setting, but Lucene still
 has a limit of about 2GB.