# Moving the server

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-server/293654>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-server/293654 "2024-01-31T16:54:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gregory\_Edigarov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gregory_edigarov/32/359373_2.png) [@Gregory\_Edigarov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gregory_Edigarov)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-the-server/293654/1 "2024-01-31T16:54:36Z")

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Hello, everybody

I am in the process of moving our discourse server to a new location.

On old server I did:  
discourse backup  
then copied the latest backup file from container to host system  
copied it to new server

then on new server:  
started the discourse container  
copied backup file into it  
did discourse restore (went fine)

Then I possibly made a mistake, I’ve tried to restart discourse container using docker restart, without rebuilding it.  
when I opened it in browser, it was just showing me five blinking dots.

I tried rebuild the app, using ‘launcher rebuild app’ command. same five blinking dots.

what am I missing?  
thanks a lot in advance.

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