# How to install Discourse on windows

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-windows/29250>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [May 26, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-windows/29250 "2015-05-26T09:10:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-install-discourse-on-windows/29250/1 "2015-05-26T09:10:46Z")

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I am completely new to Ruby on Rails , but i want to install discourse on windows, i have installed docker , but when i click to start it, it goes off after just 1 or 2 second. i dont know what to do, is that docker dosn’t work on windows, or am i doing wrong something else, my IDE is NetBeans ,  
I know this is something silly , But please help me out in this,

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