diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 6f0c918..8668a44 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -1,16 +1,9 @@
 version: '3'
 
 services:
-  proxy:
-    image: nginx:1.17-alpine
-    volumes:
-      - ./nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
-    ports:
-      - 8000:80
-    depends_on:
-      - homepage
-
   homepage:
+    ports:
+      - 8000:8000
     build:
       context: '.'
       dockerfile: ./Dockerfile.python
diff --git a/nginx.conf b/nginx.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 727f45f..0000000
--- a/nginx.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-events {}
-
-http {
-	include mime.types;
-
-	upstream homepage {
-		server homepage:8000;
-	}
-
-	map $request_uri $expires {
-		default off;
-		"~-[0-9a-z]{10}\.js$" 1d;
-		"~*(woff|woff2|ttf|eot)$" 1d;
-	}
-
-	map $sent_http_content_type $csp {
-		default "";
-		"~^text/html" "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'";
-	}
-
-	server {
-		listen 80;
-		expires $expires;
-		add_header Content-Security-Policy $csp;
-		add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=604800; includeSubDomains';
-		add_header Referrer-Policy 'origin-when-cross-origin';
-		add_header X-Content-Type-Options 'nosniff';
-		add_header X-XSS-Protection '1; mode=block';
-
-		location / {
-			proxy_pass http://homepage;
-			proxy_redirect off;
-		}
-
-		error_page 404 /custom_404.html;
-		# in development, this handles empty responses by the pelican dev server which are 404s in the end
-		error_page 502 /custom_404.html;
-		location = /custom_404.html {
-			internal;
-			proxy_pass http://homepage/404.html;
-			proxy_redirect off;
-			add_header X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive" always;
-		}
-	}
-}