# Configuring Website with Discourse and Wordpress?!
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-website-with-discourse-and-wordpress/93832
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 3, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-website-with-discourse-and-wordpress/93832 "2018-08-03T08:09:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@paulsky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/paulsky)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-website-with-discourse-and-wordpress/93832/1 "2018-08-03T08:09:47Z")
Ok Im a little confused… I’m trying to setup a website with Discourse and WordPress… however Discourse have some special server needs, so do they have to be in different servers? Do i need to make a subdomain pointing to a different server for the forum for this to work?
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### Author:  [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2018, 8:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configuring-website-with-discourse-and-wordpress/93832/2 "2018-08-03T08:31:07Z")
You should find the answer to your question here:
> [@Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-other-websites-on-the-same-machine-as-discourse/17247?source_topic_id=24688):
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> @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. NOTE: This is for advanced admins This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. You cannot use ./discourse-setup to set up Discourse if another server is using port 80 or 443. You will…