# About deploying Discourse on Windows Server
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** unsupported-install
**Created:** [September 29, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295 "2025-09-29T17:08:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@MoRanYue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MoRanYue)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295/1 "2025-09-29T17:08:31Z")
As you know, a productional server running on Windows Server 2022 is a bit rare, but I am used to Windows. I have tried doing anything what those articles teaching “Installation in WSL” on native Windows, it is impossible due to a vital Ruby gem `libv8-node` does not support Windows. Then I turned to WSL, encountering lots of problems…
Basically, I wanted to deploy Discourse in WSL without Docker, and PostgreSQL and Nginx is running in native Windows environment, is there a tutorial for my case?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295/2 "2025-09-29T19:14:59Z")
I’m afraid there is no tutorial for that, as it’s an unsupported configuration for a production install.
Can you run a Linux VM on your server and then follow the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) guide ?
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### Author:  [@MoRanYue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MoRanYue)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295/4 "2025-09-30T16:26:04Z")
After doing some research on [this article](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deploy-discourse-without-docker/351194), I have successfully deployed it on WSL. However, there is last one problem: Nginx configuration on Windows.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295/5 "2025-09-30T18:16:36Z")
That is just the first of a myriad of problems you gonna have when you don’t follow the [official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) guide. There is a reason we ship a pre-configured image after all.
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### Author:  [@MoRanYue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MoRanYue)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2025, 5:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-deploying-discourse-on-windows-server/384295/6 "2025-10-01T05:47:58Z")
I insist on my way, now the forum has been perfectly deployed without Docker.