# How to install discourse on shared hosting?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 1, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293 "2024-05-01T07:05:35Z")
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### Author: ![jugigi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jugigi/32/382900_2.png) [@jugigi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jugigi)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293/1 "2024-05-01T07:05:35Z")

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Hi all, it seems for me that i cant find tutorial how to install discourse on dedicated hosting by simply copying files to public\_html and starting intallation. I own bare metal machine with Windows Server 2022.

Can anyone help?

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### Author: ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293/2 "2024-05-01T07:28:45Z")

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That guide is a bit difficult to find here but Google finds it:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md>

You need access to shell, because Discourse works different way than using your web-root.

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### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293/3 "2024-05-01T07:49:19Z")

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> [@jugigi](#):
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> Hi all, it seems for me that i cant find tutorial how to install discourse on dedicated hosting by simply copying files to public\_html and starting intallation. I own bare metal machine with Windows Server 2022.

Windows Server is not supported.

btw, your Post and Title conflict.

Your Title says “shared”, your Post says “dedicated … bare metal”

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### Author: ![dancingCycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dancingCycle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dancingCycle)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293/4 "2024-05-01T17:59:06Z")

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Hi folks,  
For the sake of completeness the following guide presents an overview on how to use configuration management like Ansible to install, update or delete Discourse on a Linux based distribution like GNU/Debian.

> **[Cookie monster!](https://codeberg.org/tpokorra/hs.ansible/src/commit/28d9fca52151db7911bba83d6dd3c17d60e4656e/playbooks/discourse)**

Cheers!

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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: [May 1, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-shared-hosting/306293/5 "2024-05-01T18:34:51Z")

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That’s installing locally and not a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true). You won’t be able to get support here if you install it that way. It’s also not clear to me that it’s not just a development install, which will run much more slowly than the docker install