diff --git a/modules/exampleauth/templates/authenticate.tpl.php b/modules/exampleauth/templates/authenticate.tpl.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fd112ff59f94169ac4257ca083cfeed98ed086bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/exampleauth/templates/authenticate.tpl.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
+ <title>exampleauth login page</title>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <h1>exampleauth login page</h1>
+ <p>
+ In this example you can log in with two accounts: <code>student</code> and <code>admin</code>.
+ In both cases, the password is the same as the username.
+ </p>
+ <form method="post" action="?">
+ <p>
+ Username:
+ <input type="text" name="username">
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Password:
+ <input type="text" name="password">
+ </p>
+ <input type="hidden" name="ReturnTo" value="<?= htmlspecialchars($this->data['returnTo']) ?>">
+ <p><input type="submit" value="Log in"></p>
+ </form>
+<?php if($this->data['badUserPass']): ?>
+ <p>!!! Bad username or password !!!</p>
+<?php endif; ?>
+ </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/modules/exampleauth/www/authpage.php b/modules/exampleauth/www/authpage.php
index 21453f318c125a0740f79222a78eb1db55076f83..795a13cba8d2f4fc0aa9a6abc774368964b0dbbc 100644
--- a/modules/exampleauth/www/authpage.php
+++ b/modules/exampleauth/www/authpage.php
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
// if we get this far, we need to show the login page to the user
$config = \SimpleSAML\Configuration::getInstance();
-$t = new \SimpleSAML\XHTML\Template($config, 'exampleauth:authenticate.twig');
+$t = new \SimpleSAML\XHTML\Template($config, 'exampleauth:authenticate.tpl.php');
$t->data['badUserPass'] = $badUserPass;
$t->data['returnTo'] = $returnTo;
$t->show();