# 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:** ![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:** [25. Februar 2018 um 15:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-edit-the-discourse-files-a-development-box/81388/5 "2018-02-25T15:00:24Z")

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You need to set up a development environment to edit files and see changes. In production, lots of stuff is cached, so changes don’t show up.

If you want to see the files

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse 
. /launcher enter app 
cd src
ls

```

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