diff --git a/docs/source/settings.rst b/docs/source/settings.rst
index 75b34da7..b39c0c4a 100644
--- a/docs/source/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/source/settings.rst
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ accesslog
 
 The Access log file to write to.
 
-``'-'`` means log to stderr.
+``'-'`` means log to stdout.
 
 access_log_format
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~