# Can i run Discourse on my Main Domain?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2016年十二月8日 20:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980 "2016-12-08T20:45:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@King\_Daniel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/King_Daniel)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 20:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/1 "2016-12-08T20:45:33Z")
Hi,
This is my first post. I am trying to self install discourse, can i use my main domain for this installation instead of a subdomain?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 20:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/2 "2016-12-08T20:46:27Z")
Yes. Most people have another site that they run on [example.com](http://example.com), but if you don’t, you can put Discourse there.
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### Author:  [@King\_Daniel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/King_Daniel)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 20:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/3 "2016-12-08T20:58:08Z")
Thanks @pfaffman. DOne with settings… I think i broke something at the email section as i mistakenly tapped the enter button twice, skipping both SMTP user name and SMTP port [587]:
Can i delete what i have done so far and restart the process? Thanks
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 20:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/4 "2016-12-08T20:59:49Z")
Yes. But it’ll ask you if everything is right before it gets started.
```
cd /var/discourse
rm containers/app.yml
```
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### Author:  [@King\_Daniel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/King_Daniel)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 21:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/5 "2016-12-08T21:02:14Z")
Opps… Got this \>\>\>\> rm: cannot remove ‘containers/app.yml’: No such file or directory
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### Author:  [@Steven](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Steven)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 21:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/6 "2016-12-08T21:10:19Z")
You have to do `cd /var/discourse` first
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### Author:  [@King\_Daniel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/King_Daniel)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 21:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/7 "2016-12-08T21:18:09Z")
Thanks @Steven got same response no such file.directory found, is it possible i destroy this droplet and start all over again?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [2016年十二月8日 21:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-run-discourse-on-my-main-domain/53980/8 "2016-12-08T21:44:54Z")
It’s more likely that you didn’t hit return enough times for it to create the file. Just run `./discourse-setup` again.