# Perché Discourse può essere installato solo via SSH?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [28 Luglio 2018, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350 "2018-07-28T09:35:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![danekhollas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/danekhollas/32/79637_2.png) [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)\
**Post date:** [28 Luglio 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-discourse-can-be-only-installed-from-ssh/93350/3 "2018-07-28T12:20:01Z")

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TL;DR of the above ⬆ Discourse is complex piece of software that depends on a lot of other programs/libraries. This is not a Linux specific thing. It would like asking, why can’t I install any program on Windows by simply copying a folder. It’s a bit more complicated than that. 🙂

To answer your question more specifically, we would probably need to know to which software are you comparing here. For example, a lot of software that you can install like that is only working, because the server is already preconfigured to support it (if it is e.g. somethingn written in PHP).

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