diff --git a/html/50x.html b/html/50x.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbebd9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html/50x.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Error</title>
+<style>
+    body {
+        width: 35em;
+        margin: 0 auto;
+        font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
+    }
+</style>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>An error occurred.</h1>
+<p>Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.<br/>
+Please try again later.</p>
+<p>If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check
+the <a href="http://nginx.org/r/error_log">error log</a> for details.</p>
+<p><em>Faithfully yours, OpenResty.</em></p>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8527af7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Welcome to OpenResty!</title>
+<style>
+    body {
+        width: 35em;
+        margin: 0 auto;
+        font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
+    }
+</style>
+</head>
+<body>
+<h1>Welcome to OpenResty!</h1>
+<p>If you see this page, the OpenResty web platform is successfully installed and
+working. Further configuration is required.</p>
+
+<p>For online documentation and support please refer to
+<a href="https://openresty.org/">openresty.org</a>.<br/>
+
+<p><em>Thank you for flying OpenResty.</em></p>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/util/mirror-tarballs b/util/mirror-tarballs
index 623c05e..f043759 100755
--- a/util/mirror-tarballs
+++ b/util/mirror-tarballs
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ echo "$info_txt applying the upstream_timeout_fields patch for nginx"
 patch -p1 < $root/patches/nginx-$main_ver-upstream_timeout_fields.patch || exit 1
 echo
 
+cp $root/html/index.html docs/html/ || exit 1
+cp $root/html/50x.html docs/html/ || exit 1
+
 cd .. || exit 1
 
 cp $root/patches/nginx-$main_ver-no_pool.patch ./nginx-no_pool.patch || exit 1
