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 ### uWSGI Backends
 
 If you would like to connect to uWSGI backend, set `VIRTUAL_PROTO=uwsgi` on the
-backend container. Your backend container should than listen on a port rather
+backend container. Your backend container should then listen on a port rather
 than a socket and expose that port.
 
 ### Default Host