# Offline Install **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-hosting\ **Created:** [July 21, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827 "2014-07-21T19:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Ajedi32](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ajedi32/32/107370_2.png) [@Ajedi32](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ajedi32)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827/1 "2014-07-21T19:52:50Z")
Is there currently an easy way to install Discourse offline, or from behind a firewall which doesn’t allow internet access? From what I’ve seen of [discourse\_docker’s Dockerfile](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/blob/master/image/base/Dockerfile), it looks like the default install method is heavily reliant upon network access. I ask this because I am trying to deploy an internal Discourse server for my company in a very similar network environment. More details: - Our development machines do have internet access, but the machines we are deploying Discourse to do not - Our deployment does have access to resources inside our network, including a mirror of Ubuntu’s APT repo - It is feasible for us to create internal mirrors of git repositories and tarballs which Discourse may depend on - Our normal deployment process is automated using Chef recipes So what’s the deal? Is there an _easy_ way of doing this, or do I have to just copy everything to behind the firewall and write the Chef recipes necessary to install Discourse and all it’s dependencies myself? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/offline-install/17827)._