diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 579964023..de027a7fd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,3 +36,5 @@ Changelog.linkchecker*
 /alexa*.log
 /testresults.txt
 /linkchecker.prof
+.cache
+.tox
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9f54cbc6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[tox]
+envlist = py27
+
+[testenv]
+deps =
+    -rrequirements.txt
+    pyftpdlib
+    pytest-xdist
+commands =
+    py.test {posargs:tests}
+setenv =
+    LC_ALL=en_US.utf-8