# Installing Discourse on Centos/WHM

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-centos-whm/25058>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [10. Februar 2015 um 02:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-centos-whm/25058 "2015-02-10T02:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\
**Post date:** [10. Februar 2015 um 02:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-centos-whm/25058/4 "2015-02-10T02:57:08Z")

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Ho boy, if you’re running Discourse as root, your setup is rather questionable. If this is a production server and you’re logged in as root for maintenance, you shouldn’t be running tests; if this is a dev machine, you shouldn’t be logged in as root…

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