# Installing discourse with nginx already running?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-with-nginx-already-running/191901>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [May 28, 2021, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-discourse-with-nginx-already-running/191901 "2021-05-28T09:30:18Z")\
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I think the thing to do is

```
 discourse-setup --skip-connection-test --skip-rebuild

```

To create the config file that you can then edit by hand and the run the rebuild.

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