diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 6d680a7..d302818 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ MAN1_PAGES := 				\
 MAN5_PAGES :=				\
 	proxmox-offline-mirror.cfg.5
 
+EXAMPLE_FILES :=	\
+	examples/nginx-conf
+
 # Sphinx documentation setup
 SPHINXOPTS    =
 SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ man-pages: ${GENERATED_SYNOPSIS}
 	${SPHINXBUILD} ${SPHINXOPTS} -b man ./ ${BUILDDIR}/man
 
 .PHONY: html
-html: ${GENERATED_SYNOPSIS} images/proxmox-logo.svg custom.css conf.py ${PRUNE_SIMULATOR_FILES} ${LTO_BARCODE_FILES} ${API_VIEWER_SOURCES}
+html: ${GENERATED_SYNOPSIS} images/proxmox-logo.svg custom.css conf.py ${PRUNE_SIMULATOR_FILES} ${LTO_BARCODE_FILES} ${API_VIEWER_SOURCES} ${EXAMPLE_FILES}
 	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
 	install -m 0644 custom.js custom.css images/proxmox-logo.svg $(BUILDDIR)/html/_static/
 	@echo
@@ -83,12 +86,16 @@ install_pdf: latexpdf
 	install -dm755 $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
 	install -m 0644 output/latex/ProxmoxOfflineMirror.pdf $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/proxmox-offline-mirror.pdf
 
+install_examples: ${EXAMPLE_FILES}
+	install -dm755 $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/examples
+	install -m 0644 examples/nginx-conf $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/examples
+
 ifneq ($(filter nodoc,$(DEB_BUILD_PROFILES)),)
 
 install: install_manual_pages
 
 else
 
-install: install_manual_pages install_html install_pdf
+install: install_manual_pages install_html install_pdf install_examples
 
 endif
diff --git a/docs/examples/nginx-conf b/docs/examples/nginx-conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d69aa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/examples/nginx-conf
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# with the correct dns setup and path this corresponds to a sources.lists entry
+# deb [ check-valid-until=false ] http://proxmox-offline-mirror.domain.example/<mirror-name>/<snapshot-timestamp> <codename> <suite>
+server {
+	listen 80 default_server;
+	listen [::]:80 default_server;
+
+	server_name proxmox-offline-mirror.domain.example;
+
+	root /path/to/medium;
+	disable_symlinks off;
+	autoindex on;
+
+	error_log /var/log/nginx/proxmox-offline-mirror.error.log;
+	access_log /var/log/nginx/proxmox-offline-mirror.access.log;
+
+	location / {
+	        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+	}
+}
+
diff --git a/docs/offline-media.rst b/docs/offline-media.rst
index 70cfff2..066657d 100644
--- a/docs/offline-media.rst
+++ b/docs/offline-media.rst
@@ -47,5 +47,17 @@ setup will let you select the mirrors and snapshots and can generate a `sources.
 This snippet can be saved to the ``/etc/apt/sources.list.d`` directory. The default file name is
 ``offline-mirror.list``.  Don't forget to remove the snippet after the upgrade is done.
 
+You can also configure an HTTP server to provide the snapshots in your internal network.
+A minimal sample configuration for `nginx`:
+
+  .. literalinclude:: examples/nginx-conf
+
+The corresponding ``/etc/apt/sources.list.d`` file should contain
+
+.. code-block:: sources.list
+
+  deb [ check-valid-until=false ] http://proxmox-offline-mirror.domain.example/<mirror-name>/<snapshot-timestamp> <codename> <suite>
+
+
 To activate or update an offline subscription key, either use ``proxmox-offline-mirror-helper offline-key`` or
 ``proxmox-offline-mirror-helper setup``.