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 t…

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 guide ?

After doing some research on this article , I have successfully deployed it on WSL. However, there is last one problem: Nginx configuration on Windows.

That is just the first of a myriad of problems you gonna have when you don’t follow the official install guide. There is a reason we ship a pre-configured image after all.

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I insist on my way, now the forum has been perfectly deployed without Docker.

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