diff --git a/nginx/conf.d/default.conf b/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
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+server {
+    listen       80;
+    server_name  _;
+
+    # redirect language code dirs to an index.html dir
+    #
+    if (!-f $request_filename) {
+            rewrite "^\/orcid-web-frontend\/([a-z]{2}(_[A-Za-z]{2})?)\/.*" /orcid-web-frontend/$1/index.html last;
+    }
+
+    location / {
+        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
+        index  index.html index.htm;
+    }
+
+    # 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;
+    }
+
+}
+