# Discourse setup not asking for smtp server address

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-not-asking-for-smtp-server-address/73993>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-not-asking-for-smtp-server-address/73993 "2017-11-13T15:56:07Z")\
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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:** [November 13, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-setup-not-asking-for-smtp-server-address/73993/4 "2017-11-13T17:18:15Z")

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Ah. It looks like `discourse-setup` expects you to be in `/var/discourse`

do this:

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./discourse-setup

```

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