diff --git a/.envrc.sample b/.envrc.sample
index 652a581..075134d 100644
--- a/.envrc.sample
+++ b/.envrc.sample
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ export DOMAIN=custom-html.example.com
 ## Domain aliases
 #export EXTRA_DOMAINS=', `www.custom-html.example.com`'
 export LETS_ENCRYPT_ENV=production
+
+export NGINX_DEFAULT_CONF_VERSION=v1
diff --git a/compose.yml b/compose.yml
index bb37c4c..d77cf8b 100644
--- a/compose.yml
+++ b/compose.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ services:
         - "traefik.http.middlewares.${STACK_NAME}-redirect.headers.SSLHost=${DOMAIN}"
     volumes:
       - content:/usr/share/nginx/html
+    configs:
+      - source: nginx_default_conf
+        target: /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
     #healthcheck:
     #  test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost"]
     #  interval: 30s
@@ -32,6 +35,11 @@ services:
 volumes:
   content:
 
+configs:
+  nginx_default_conf:
+    name: ${STACK_NAME}_nginx_default_conf_${NGINX_DEFAULT_CONF_VERSION}
+    file: default.conf
+
 networks:
   proxy:
     external: true
diff --git a/default.conf b/default.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39de0d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/default.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+# edited copy of upstream default config
+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;
+				try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html;
+    }
+
+    #error_page  404              /404.html;
+
+    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
+    #
+    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
+    location = /50x.html {
+        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
+    }
+
+    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
+    #
+    #location ~ \.php$ {
+    #    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;
+    #}
+}