diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 04ecc83..557450e 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
-FROM nginx
+FROM nginx:alpine
+
+# set labels
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="kasper.fischer@rub.de"
+
+# copy nginx config files
+COPY nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+COPY nginx/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+
+# copy webpage content
 COPY www /usr/share/nginx/html
-COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
diff --git a/nginx/default.conf b/nginx/default.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b460be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nginx/default.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+server {
+    listen       80;
+    listen  [::]:80;
+    server_name  localhost;
+
+    #charset koi8-r;
+    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/host.access.log  main;
+
+    location / {
+        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        index  index.html index.htm;
+    }
+
+    #error_page  404              /404.html;
+
+    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
+    #
+    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
+    location = /50x.html {
+        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
+    }
+
+    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
+    #
+    #location ~ \.php$ {
+    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
+    #}
+
+    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
+    #
+    #location ~ \.php$ {
+    #    root           html;
+    #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
+    #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
+    #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
+    #    include        fastcgi_params;
+    #}
+
+    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
+    # concurs with nginx's one
+    #
+    #location ~ /\.ht {
+    #    deny  all;
+    #}
+}
+
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx/nginx.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from nginx.conf
rename to nginx/nginx.conf