diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
index 90d68ee4..5e72fb8e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
           # ziti controller always binds at /zac and trailing slash is necessary to qualify Angular runtime paths in index.html
           build-args: |
             NODE_VERSION=${{ env.NODE_VERSION }}
-            BASE_HREF='/zac/'
+            BASE_HREF=/zac/
 
       - name: Generate artifact attestation
         uses: actions/attest-build-provenance@v1