diff --git a/management/univention-management-console-frontend/conffiles/etc/apache2/sites-available/univention-management-console b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/conffiles/etc/apache2/sites-available/univention-management-console
index 89cd80e..5e47fd4 100644
--- a/management/univention-management-console-frontend/conffiles/etc/apache2/sites-available/univention-management-console
+++ b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/conffiles/etc/apache2/sites-available/univention-management-console
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%1 !-d
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^GET
 RewriteRule ^(/univention-management-console/js)_[^/]*/(.*) $1/$2 [R=301]
 
+# avoid 404 Not Found errors for not existing translation files
+RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/univention-management-console/js[^/]*/umc/modules/i18n/(en|de)/.*\.json
+RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+RewriteRule .* /univention-management-console/js/umc/modules/i18n/empty.json [P,L,T=application/json]
+
 <LocationMatch "^/univention-management-console/(set|get|logout|saml|auth|upload|command).*">
 	RequestHeader set X-UMC-HTTPS %{HTTPS}s
 	ErrorDocument 503 "{\"status\": 503, \"message\": \"The Univention Management Console Web Server could not be reached. Please restart it or try again later.\"}"
diff --git a/management/univention-management-console-frontend/debian/univention-management-console-frontend.install b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/debian/univention-management-console-frontend.install
index 955793c..c973baa 100644
--- a/management/univention-management-console-frontend/debian/univention-management-console-frontend.install
+++ b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/debian/univention-management-console-frontend.install
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 usr/share/univention-management-console-frontend/* usr/share/univention-management-console-frontend/
 icons/univention-management-console.svg	usr/share/univention-management-console-frontend/js/dijit/themes/umc/icons/scalable/
+empty.json usr/share/univention-management-console-frontend/js/umc/modules/i18n/empty.json
diff --git a/management/univention-management-console-frontend/empty.json b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/empty.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0967ef4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/management/univention-management-console-frontend/empty.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}