# Installer gets stuck

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [May 6, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installer-gets-stuck/150551 "2020-05-06T04:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![iqfx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/iqfx/32/179440_2.png) [@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")

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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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