# I want to remove meta name="description", but changes not reflecting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 22, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911 "2018-12-22T16:51:36Z")
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### Author: ![Amit\_Arora](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amit_arora/32/426411_2.png) [@Amit\_Arora](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amit_Arora)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911/1 "2018-12-22T16:51:36Z")

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I want to remove the meta name=“description”; I made changes in application.html.erb.  
The file is located at:  
/var/lib/docker/overlay2/77f62fc5de6c7f76b807f77a0b2ad6fd1cfd6377d452e4fec0349278c8aca505/diff/var/www/discourse/app/views/layouts/ **application.html.erb**

But the changes are not reflecting…  
Is this the correct file path?  
What steps do I have to take after making changes?

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### Author: ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911/2 "2018-12-22T17:37:46Z")

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You are trying to make changes to the `Docker` container. However, they are short-lived. As soon as you update any component of the site, the file will change.

In your case, you may have made a mistake with the folder:

```plaintext
/ var / lib / docker / overlay2 / ***???**

```

If the file is correct, the changes should occur after: `./launcher restart app`

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### Author: ![Amit\_Arora](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/amit_arora/32/426411_2.png) [@Amit\_Arora](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Amit_Arora)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911/3 "2018-12-22T17:52:48Z")

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What would be the correct path?? I had installed over digitalocean.

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### Author: ![Stranik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stranik/32/85638_2.png) [@Stranik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stranik)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-want-to-remove-meta-name-description-but-changes-not-reflecting/104911/4 "2018-12-22T18:01:16Z")

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I think it is:

> [@Can I override app/views/layouts/application.html.erb from a plugin?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-override-app-views-layouts-application-html-erb-from-a-plugin/47267):
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> I have a very specific scenario where I need to load and cache the site header and footer from our primary website. This is fairly trivial to do in ERB: \<!-- My Customization --\> \<% cache("footer\_#{I18n.locale}", expires\_in: 1.week) do %\> \<%= raw open("https://myserver.com/#{I18n.locale}/remote/footer").read %\> \<% end %\> \<!-- End Customization --\> Note in my example that I am passing along the I18n locale as well. Neither the caching nor passing the locale will work with the html cust…