# Setting up Discourse on a machine with existing Nginx

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-on-a-machine-with-existing-nginx/121869>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 2, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-on-a-machine-with-existing-nginx/121869 "2019-07-02T08:57:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-discourse-on-a-machine-with-existing-nginx/121869/5 "2019-07-03T06:39:18Z")

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But, I have another web application on this server runs already. I am not even able to execute the command “./launcher enter app”, because I don’t have the container that is up and running for me.

Edit: I think my problem is that creating an nginx configuration on my host for my container doesn’t take affect, I can’t make reverse proxy.

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