diff --git a/app/_src/gateway/how-kong-works/routing-traffic.md b/app/_src/gateway/how-kong-works/routing-traffic.md
index 2f4de8bd9390..b7a66b1e4020 100644
--- a/app/_src/gateway/how-kong-works/routing-traffic.md
+++ b/app/_src/gateway/how-kong-works/routing-traffic.md
@@ -979,8 +979,8 @@ There are two configurable elements here:
    means an error or timeout occurring while establishing a connection with the
    server, passing a request to it, or reading the response headers.
 
-The second option is based on Nginx's
-[proxy_next_upstream][proxy_next_upstream] directive. This option is not
+The second option is based on Nginx's 
+[proxy_next_upstream](https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_next_upstream) directive. This option is not
 directly configurable through {{site.base_gateway}}, but can be added using a custom Nginx
 configuration. See the [configuration reference][configuration-reference] for
 more details.