# Where to start with coding?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-start-with-coding/290565
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 4, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-start-with-coding/290565 "2024-01-04T21:30:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Chukwithak](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chukwithak)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-start-with-coding/290565/1 "2024-01-04T21:30:29Z")
We are a small non profit. 50 people and I joined the board this year. Maybe the youngest person to be on the board to date? at 41. Needless to say the site is outdated as well as the forums the NPO uses. The board is also the main source of communication currently. My personal goal for being on the board is to update the site and the forums to more user friendly and up to date software. That being said, what coding should I start learning so that I can begin to understand docker and installs?
There’s a gentlemen that’s hosting our site for us on his AWS server that I’m building a wrodpress site on. I would like to install discourse on the same server via FTP, and I assume a subdomain is the proper way tto do this? I have VERY little coding background so plan on learning from youtube. I did play with DO droplets a little and was able to get their preoplulated installs up and running, but thats additional monthly rvenue I’m hoping ot bee able to save by installing on the AWS server. TYIA.
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### Author:  [@hawm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hawm)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2024, 7:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/where-to-start-with-coding/290565/2 "2024-01-05T07:08:18Z")
You may start from here [discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)
> [@Chukwithak](#):
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> I would like to install discourse on the same server via FTP
FTP installation is not possible you would need at least SSH access, and working with other websites on the same machine would be much more complex.
> [@Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/run-other-websites-on-the-same-machine-as-discourse/17247):
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> @pfaffman edited this heavily 2022.02.24. Blame me if it’s broken. If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. NOTE: This is for advanced admins This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. You cannot use ./discourse-setup to set up Discourse if another server is using port 80 or 443. You will…
> [@Use Nginx Proxy Manager to manage multiple sites with Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/use-nginx-proxy-manager-to-manage-multiple-sites-with-discourse/206344):
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> EDIT: @pfaffman re-wrote this as a standalone topic from what @tophee had written earlier. It’s not yet tested by me, and I’ve moved around Chris’s words, so any mistakes are likely those of @pfaffman. Are there any reasons not to use [NGINX Proxy Manager](https://nginxproxymanager.com/) instead of doing this manually as described in [Run other websites on the same machine as Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/running-other-websites-on-the-same-machine-as-discourse/17247)? I’m already using it. I’ve had it on my home server for a while and when I migrated my discourse instance to a new cloud server, I realized t…