# Deploy Discourse without Docker

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/deploy-discourse-without-docker/351194
**Category:** Sysadmins
**Tags:** unsupported-install, advanced-setup
**Created:** [February 8, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deploy-discourse-without-docker/351194 "2025-02-08T03:56:12Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/deploy-discourse-without-docker/351194/19 "2025-09-20T21:52:39Z")

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> [@lion](#):
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> Well I am not forcing Discourse to ssl

You need to do that to tell discourse to send only https links. It’s not changing the redirects, but the need for them.

You need to turn on the force https setting.

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