# Installing Discourse with Apache2 Installed

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**Created:** [July 21, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-with-apache2-installed/197771 "2021-07-21T16:02:34Z")\
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Yes. Normally for doing reverse proxy you will want your service running in a unix socket. You can add the line

```plaintext
  - "templates/web.socketed.template.yml" 

```

to the templates list in the app.yml for that. Socket will be created at `/var/discourse/shared/standalone/nginx.http.sock`

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