diff --git a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
index 4a9fc64..77b1bb7 100644
--- a/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
+++ b/tools/creating-new-drutopia-site.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ wget https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/master/.gitignore
 mkdir -p scripts
 wget -O scripts/pull.sh https://gitlab.com/drutopia-platform/build_source/-/raw/master/scripts/pull.sh
 chmod +x scripts/pull.sh
-ddev config --docroot=web --project-type=drupal9 --composer-version=2 --webserver-type=apache-fpm --database:mariadb:10.5 --php-version=7.4 --create-docroot
+ddev config --docroot=web --project-type=drupal9 --composer-version=2 --webserver-type=apache-fpm --database=mariadb:10.5 --php-version=7.4 --create-docroot
 ddev start
 ddev auth ssh
 ddev composer install