# Setting a custom IP doesn't work?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [September 6, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-a-custom-ip-doesnt-work/277981 "2023-09-06T08:09:26Z")\
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If you’re only setting it up locally temporarily to try it out, I would just spin up a virtual machine rather than trying to get it running alongside nginx.

The virtual machine can be given its own IP, will likely automatically give itself a .local address and you can just do a standard Discourse install inside it.

When done, throw away the virtual machine and you don’t need to worry about reverting any changes to nginx or anything else.

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