# Developing Discourse using a Dev Container

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**Created:** [November 15, 2024, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/developing-discourse-using-a-dev-container/336366 "2024-11-15T16:44:08Z")\
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I should mention my instructions were for Linux. (NixOS specifically in my case) but no reason it shouldn’t work in other Linux based systems.

@dfabulich I read your post and I think I understand the issue. Port forwarding shouldn’t be necessary. You need the containers IP. 127.0.0.1 is localhost (your local system, not the container)

The jq command should have output a local lan subnet IP you can access without port forwarding.

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