diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 9abb4089..c53ebafe 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ RUN apt update
 RUN apt install -y curl htop
 RUN apt install -y nginx
 RUN apt install -y libdbi-perl libdbd-pg-perl
+RUN apt install -y gettext
 
 # move build files to container
 COPY service/build /opt/service
diff --git a/docker/production/entrypoint.sh b/docker/production/entrypoint.sh
index d0c2a639..2f3abe8a 100644
--- a/docker/production/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/production/entrypoint.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ nginx -v
 export GIN_MODE=release
 /opt/service/ivory &
 
+# insert base url
+envsubst '\$BASE_URL' < /etc/nginx/nginx.conf > "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.tmp" && mv "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.tmp" "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
+if [ -n "${BASE_URL}" ]; then
+    sed -i "s/location \//location \\${BASE_URL}/g" /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+    sed -i "s/api/\/api/g" /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+fi
+
 # run nginx server
 /usr/sbin/nginx &
 
diff --git a/docker/production/nginx.conf b/docker/production/nginx.conf
index 98f787df..89dd1fba 100644
--- a/docker/production/nginx.conf
+++ b/docker/production/nginx.conf
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ http {
         listen 80;
 
         location / {
-            root /opt/web;
+            alias /opt/web/;
             index index.html;
             try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
         }
 
         location /api {
+            rewrite ${BASE_URL}(.*) $1 break;
             proxy_set_header Connection '';
             proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
             # we need this for events-stream we don't want to gzip or cache any data