# How to install Discourse locally?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-locally/185116>\
**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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**Author:** ![Im\_Nim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/im_nim/32/215769_2.png) [@Im\_Nim](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Im_Nim)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-locally/185116/6 "2021-04-05T03:41:00Z")

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Hi Marcin,

I have the same concern with you about the domain names for discourse. WHY LOCALHOST IS NOT ENOUGH?

I just only install discourse for my team to play but cannot without DNS. We tried to add DNS resource with localhost to the hosts file on my server to resolve but unsuccessful.

Does anyone try to run discourse without public domain?

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