# Set installation path

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 9, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903 "2017-07-09T19:05:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-installation-path/65903/14 "2017-08-11T15:39:24Z")

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`/var/discourse` and all the directories below it are the only place we store persistent data.

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