diff --git a/doc/source/tune.rst b/doc/source/tune.rst
index a861a5554..f93463b0b 100644
--- a/doc/source/tune.rst
+++ b/doc/source/tune.rst
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ To use the Client API, you can start your experiment with ``with_server=True``:
 
     run_experiments({...}, with_server=True, server_port=4321)
 
-Then, on the client side, you can use the following class. The server address defaults to ``localhost:4321``. If on a cluster, you may want to forward this port (e.g. ``ssh -L <port>:localhost:<port> <address>``) so that you can use the Client on your local machine.
+Then, on the client side, you can use the following class. The server address defaults to ``localhost:4321``. If on a cluster, you may want to forward this port (e.g. ``ssh -L <local_port>:localhost:<remote_port> <address>``) so that you can use the Client on your local machine.
 
 .. autoclass:: ray.tune.web_server.TuneClient
     :members:
diff --git a/doc/source/webui.rst b/doc/source/webui.rst
index 5db73cf52..42b0635fe 100644
--- a/doc/source/webui.rst
+++ b/doc/source/webui.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ with the ``-L`` option as such:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-  ssh -L <port>:localhost:<port> <user>@<ip-address>
+  ssh -L <local_port>:localhost:<remote_port> <user>@<ip-address>
 
 So for the above URL, you would use the port 8889. The Jupyter notebook attempts
 to run on port 8888, but if that fails it tries successive ports until it finds