# Two standalone instances on one server?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-standalone-instances-on-one-server/60551>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [6. April 2017 um 14:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-standalone-instances-on-one-server/60551 "2017-04-06T14:33:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [7. April 2017 um 15:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-standalone-instances-on-one-server/60551/17 "2017-04-07T15:16:57Z")

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You actually don’t need another /var/[myforum]… You can just use the same /var/discourse for multiple instances.

`/var/discourse/containers/app.yml` → This is the default instance you get by running `discourse-setup`

`/var/discourse/containers/myforum.yml` → This is the 2nd instance you get by running `cp app.yml myforum.yml` && edit && `./launcher bootstrap myforum`

When editing myforum.yml, make sure you put a different host path under the volumes section, so that your 2nd container stores its data under a different directory than the 1st one.

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