# 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:** ![thebetterjort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thebetterjort/32/219919_2.png) [@thebetterjort](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thebetterjort)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-locally/185116/8 "2021-05-06T23:17:04Z")

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Well for us – we don’t want discourse to be public. We want an internal discussion board. I’m with the others, localhost fails, install fails when you are just trying to give it a test run. Really off putting and the crazy scripts instead of the well known and standard ‘docker-compose up -d --build’ is alarming to say the least.. I don’t know if I want to use this product because it takes itself too seriously… or at least somebody who wrote the launcher is.

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