diff --git a/docs/guides/dns-over-https.md b/docs/guides/dns-over-https.md
index 793d9ba..f0bc295 100644
--- a/docs/guides/dns-over-https.md
+++ b/docs/guides/dns-over-https.md
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ Create a `cloudflared` user to run the daemon:
 sudo useradd -s /usr/sbin/nologin -r -M cloudflared
 ```
 
-Proceed to create a configuration file for `cloudflared` by copying the following in to `/etc/default/cloudflared`. This file contains the command-line options that get passed to cloudflared on startup:
+Proceed to create a configuration file for `cloudflared`:
+```bash
+sudo nano /etc/default/cloudflared
+```
+Edit configuration file by copying the following in to `/etc/default/cloudflared`. This file contains the command-line options that get passed to cloudflared on startup:
 
 ```bash
 # Commandline args for cloudflared