# Wie bearbeitet man die discourse-Dateien? Ein Entwicklungssystem?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-the-discourse-files-a-development-box/81388>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [24. Februar 2018 um 08:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-the-discourse-files-a-development-box/81388 "2018-02-24T08:20:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![frold](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/frold/32/82547_2.png) [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)\
**Post date:** [25. Februar 2018 um 11:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-the-discourse-files-a-development-box/81388/4 "2018-02-25T11:39:25Z")

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But it is still not clear to me: Can I on a live setup/site - browse the .rp files via my SSH connection - edit them and see if my changes work?

If I in shell do

`cd /var/discourse`

Then:  
`./launcher rebuild app`

Then  
`ls -ls`

I get this - where do I find the files?

 ![58](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/7/77d370ebc8e91b97ebcf157dc97d65906f1fa72b.png)

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