# Installing Discourse on DigitalOcean - got stuck

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-digitalocean-got-stuck/159591
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 2, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-digitalocean-got-stuck/159591 "2020-08-02T17:04:40Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-on-digitalocean-got-stuck/159591/10 "2020-08-02T23:14:08Z")

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The 1-click installer is sort-of a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true), but it keeps you from knowing the way that you’re supposed to do stuff.

You really need to follow the [Discourse official Standard Installation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-official-standard-installation/142537). I think, though, that you can ssh (or use the console) to access your server as you have done already and

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./discourse-setup

```

If that works, then you can say you have an “[official install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true)” and you’ll know that stuff like `./launcher rebuild app` will work.

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