# Is it possible to locally host Discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [22 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144 "2019-01-22T02:16:06Z")
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### Author: ![Teddy\_H](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/teddy_h/32/133524_2.png) [@Teddy\_H](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teddy_H)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 2:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144/1 "2019-01-22T02:16:06Z")

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I want to host discource locally just to test the forums, I don’t have a card to verify with atm so I can’t use the discource free trial. But is it possible and how would I accomplish that?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144/2 "2019-01-22T02:19:55Z")

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It is possible. We have guides under the #dev-install tag.

You can also create an account at [http://try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) to test things out a bit.

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### Author: ![sau226](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sau226/32/302324_2.png) [@sau226](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sau226)
#### Post date: [22 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 8:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144/3 "2019-01-22T08:31:34Z")

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If you have a computer with at least 3GB’s of available RAM (google how to find RAM if you need it) just use an app like Virtualbox, install Ubuntu Server 18.04 and follow the [Official Installation Guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) to get your own copy of Discourse up.

Note: This install is in production mode and should be a bit faster than a dev install.

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### Author: ![Teddy\_H](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/teddy_h/32/133524_2.png) [@Teddy\_H](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Teddy_H)
#### Post date: [9 במרץ,‏ 2019,‏ 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144/4 "2019-03-09T17:50:12Z")

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Yeah, I would do that however I mainly just want to test out the administrative perks.

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [9 במרץ,‏ 2019,‏ 6:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-locally-host-discourse/107144/5 "2019-03-09T18:11:24Z")

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For that you don’t really need to install it. Just check out a the #howto:admins posts for an idea of what admins can do.