# Installer gets stuck
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 6, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551 "2020-05-06T04:29:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@iqfx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iqfx)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551/1 "2020-05-06T04:29:47Z")
Hello everyone,
I followed the install guide listed on this github page:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
I am trying to install this on a VM running inside of my homelab.
However, everytime i run the discourse-setup script it keeps hanging on “checking your domain name”
I haven’t found a way around this check as I don’t want to botch anything here. My netstat tells me there is nothing else using port 443 or 80 for that matter and i even went as far as to open ports 443 and 80 to my VM. Is there anything I am doing wrong? Or is it only designed to work on a VPS? I’m running ubuntu-server 18.04 LTS
Any help is appreciated!
Kind regards,
IQFX
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551/2 "2020-05-06T06:11:02Z")
That setup script needs a valid FQDN pointing to the public IP of Your VM.
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### Author:  [@iqfx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/iqfx)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551/3 "2020-05-06T06:23:23Z")
My setup is NAT-ed. I got around it by first editing the container/app.yml, then i did ./loader rebuild app
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551/4 "2020-05-06T06:47:51Z")
> [@iqfx](#):
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> Or is it only designed to work on a VPS?
Yes, that is correct. 🙂 Your setup is not what Discourse is designed for.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551/5 "2020-06-05T06:47:54Z")
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