# Problem installing docs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 27, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060 "2024-10-27T14:12:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@willie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/willie)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060/1 "2024-10-27T14:12:51Z")
I installed the DOCS plugin on my site but when I do the ./launcher rebuild app, the docs doesn’t appear in the plugins session. Do you know what the cause is?
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060/2 "2024-10-27T14:50:01Z")
did you follow this guide? what steps did you do? are there any errors? more details would help.
> [@Install plugins on a self-hosted site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-on-a-self-hosted-site/19157):
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> warning This guide assumes that you have a self-hosted standard installation. We only support the standard method of install here, so these instructions assume you have a [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true). warning This guide only applies to self-hosted Discourse instances. If you are using a managed hosting service, the available plugins are controlled by your hosting provider. For example, on our hosting [these specific plugins](https://www.discourse.org/plugins) are available by hosting tier. information_source As of mid-2025, [many p…](https://meta.discourse.org/t/373574)
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### Author:  [@willie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/willie)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060/3 "2024-10-27T14:55:45Z")
Hi, I want to thank you for all the help you have given me since I joined this forum. Everything you have done for me has been very helpful and I sincerely thank you. In answer to your question, yes, I have done everything it says there. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Once I do the ./launcher rebuild app. I enter my panel and reboot my VPs. Or I don’t know if I should do the reboot!
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### Author:  [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/problem-installing-docs/333060/4 "2024-10-27T15:09:18Z")
Ok so you can start your Discourse instance, but the plugin isn’t showing up in the admin plugins page? So you’re not getting errors on start up or anything like that? I assume you edited the `app.yml` file. Do you have other plugins installed? 🤔