follow the official guide:
# Install Discourse on a Cloud Server
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>
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**Set up Discourse in about 10 minutes** with zero knowledge of Rails or Linux shell. Works on any Docker-compatible cloud provider or local server.
## Contents
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [The Setup Wizard](#the-setup-wizard)
- [After Installation](#after-installation)
- [Advanced Configuration](#advanced-configuration)
- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting)
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change any reference to /var/discourse to your path that you’re installing to. Including when you create your container template… for instance in
## this is the all-in-one, standalone Discourse Docker container template
##
## After making changes to this file, you MUST rebuild
## /var/discourse/launcher rebuild app
##
## BE *VERY* CAREFUL WHEN EDITING!
## YAML FILES ARE SUPER SUPER SENSITIVE TO MISTAKES IN WHITESPACE OR ALIGNMENT!
## visit http://www.yamllint.com/ to validate this file as needed
templates:
- "templates/postgres.template.yml"
- "templates/redis.template.yml"
- "templates/web.template.yml"
- "templates/web.ratelimited.template.yml"
## Uncomment these two lines if you wish to add Lets Encrypt (https)
#- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
#- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
## which TCP/IP ports should this container expose?
## If you want Discourse to share a port with another webserver like Apache or nginx,
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you’d change the volumes section to read something like:
volumes:
- volume:
host: /home/admin/discourse/shared/standalone
guest: /shared
- volume:
host: /home/admin/discourse/standalone/log/var-log
guest: /var/log
From the looks of your desired install directory under /home/admin/web/discuss.example.com/public_html/ it appears you are under the impression that Discourse is a collection of stuff that you can just drop into a web directory. Rather, bear in mind Discourse is a full web application that would need to be proxied to from your web host.
You’d need to look into apache reverse proxying for example.