# Install Discourse development environment on Windows?

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So now you’d enter the console via powershell and run the import script.

You’ll also need to get mysql installed and the database imported there, or configure your mySQL database to allow connections to it from your development machine; this is slower, but allows you to import directly from your live database.

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