# Could the installation docs address more situations?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-the-installation-docs-address-more-situations/280811
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 2, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-the-installation-docs-address-more-situations/280811 "2023-10-02T20:34:02Z")
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### Author: ![gilgongo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gilgongo/32/330356_2.png) [@gilgongo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gilgongo)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/could-the-installation-docs-address-more-situations/280811/1 "2023-10-02T20:34:02Z")

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I’m sure [these instructions](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) work well for those who use cloud servers dedicated to the purpose of hosting only Discourse.

But there may be quite a large number who want to install it on hosts that already have web and mail servers running (and understand the stated performance disadvantages).

I realise there is a “documentation” category here where at least some of this information can be found. But to use a discussion forum as a documentation platform isn’t ideal - for reasons I hope are obvious.

If I were to submit a modified installation document to the repo (that is, instructions that still assume Docker and covers cloud servers as is, but also caters for cases with existing Nginx or Apache setups) would that get accepted? It would mean some modifications to the existing INSTALL-cloud.md to make it all readable though.

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