# Move Discourse to a new server without setting up the web UI first?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-discourse-to-a-new-server-without-setting-up-the-web-ui-first/76504>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [December 20, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-discourse-to-a-new-server-without-setting-up-the-web-ui-first/76504 "2017-12-20T19:29:16Z")\
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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:** [September 3, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/move-discourse-to-a-new-server-without-setting-up-the-web-ui-first/76504/11 "2022-09-03T20:51:05Z")

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If you’re changing server specs then you will benefit from running discourse-setup - it handles certain aspects of scaling (unicorn workers and db shared buffers) and will automatically configure the app.yml. Just copying folders across won’t achieve this.

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