diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 5bc2f084a2..4282d26b9f 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ def patch_pygments_to_highlight_jsonschema():
 # base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
 # Announce that we have an opensearch plugin
 # https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/configuration.html#confval-html_use_opensearch
-html_use_opensearch = "https://plonerestapi.readthedocs.org/"
+html_use_opensearch = "https://plonerestapi.readthedocs.org"
 
 
 # This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
diff --git a/news/1846.documentation b/news/1846.documentation
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d46a5b6816
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/1846.documentation
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+`html_use_opensearch` value must not have a trailing slash. Clean up comments. @stevepiercy