diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f8f37708c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# .readthedocs.yml
+# Read the Docs configuration file
+# See https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html for details
+
+# Required
+version: 2
+
+# Build documentation in the docs/ directory with Sphinx
+sphinx:
+  configuration: package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
+
+# Build documentation with MkDocs
+#mkdocs:
+#  configuration: mkdocs.yml
+
+
+# Optionally set the version of Python and requirements required to build your docs
+python:
+  version: 3.7
+  install:
+    - requirements: package/requirements.txt
+    - method: setuptools
+      path: package/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
index e42a0341d2c..8cb569ad0b9 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
@@ -68,4 +68,4 @@
 
 #: Release of MDAnalysis as a string, using `semantic versioning`_.
 __version__ = "2.0.0-dev0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
-release = False
\ No newline at end of file
+release = False
diff --git a/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py b/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
index 2dde4fc98ee..9be89015677 100644
--- a/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
+++ b/package/doc/sphinx/source/conf.py
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
 }
 
 html_context = {
-    'versions_json_url': 'https://lilyminium.github.io/mdanalysis/versions.json'
+    'versions_json_url': 'https://mdanalysis.org/mdanalysis/versions.json'
 }
 
 # Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
diff --git a/package/requirements.txt b/package/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2c22157aa5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+biopython
+codecov
+cython
+griddataformats
+gsd
+hypothesis
+joblib>=0.12
+matplotlib
+mmtf-python
+mock
+msmb_theme==1.2.0
+netcdf4
+networkx
+numpy
+parmed
+psutil
+pytest
+scikit-learn
+scipy
+seaborn>=0.7.0,<=0.9
+sphinx==1.8.5
+sphinx_rtd_theme
+sphinx_sitemap
+tqdm