# How to install Discourse locally?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 1, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-locally/185116 "2021-04-01T14:43:28Z")\
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It’s for production and it requires https so you need a domain name. The azure one will work.

You don’t have to use the same domain name for the mail server as the hostname. A while back I changed discourse-setup to prompt for the notification email address.

Subdomain means just don’t use `x.com` but use `y.x.com`. That’s fairly established practice.

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