# Resetting Discourse Instance
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 14, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593 "2019-09-14T18:39:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Earlie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Earlie)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/1 "2019-09-14T18:39:30Z")
Hello,
I am to know if there is an option to reset a discourse instance (currently installed at Digital Ocean). I need to have a clean and standalone install of discourse without having to get a fresh install again altogether.
Many Thanks
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/2 "2019-09-14T18:47:05Z")
This will delete all data including the database and recreate the Docker container.
```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher stop app
rm -rf shared/standalone
./launcher rebuild app
```
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### Author:  [@Earlie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Earlie)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/3 "2019-09-14T19:01:33Z")
Thank you so much sincerely for caring so much to answer my query!
Would you also share some insight on as how to change the admin email id registered while installing Discourse instance via command line?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/4 "2019-09-14T22:10:16Z")
This might help you. You can do a lot of this kind of thing with the Rails console:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/account-stuck-on-we-sent-an-activation-mail-to-new-wrong-email/69946/2?u=merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/t/account-stuck-on-we-sent-an-activation-mail-to-new-wrong-email/69946/2)
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### Author:  [@Earlie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Earlie)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/5 "2019-09-15T03:53:16Z")
Thank you for your prompt response to the question.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/resetting-discourse-instance/128593/6 "2019-10-15T03:53:21Z")
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