# Stuck @ CHOWN for /var/www/discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-chown-for-var-www-discourse/74138>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-chown-for-var-www-discourse/74138 "2017-11-15T23:16:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![schungx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schungx/32/70989_2.png) [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-chown-for-var-www-discourse/74138/5 "2017-11-16T03:09:28Z")

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Yup, it cam take up to 30min for a fresh install and 20min for a rebuild. You probably should scale up to a high cpu vm for the install then scale back down afterwards.

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