# Can we install chef server on windows

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/can-we-install-chef-server-on-windows/10402>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [February 13, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/can-we-install-chef-server-on-windows/10402 "2017-02-13T18:38:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![phanikumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@phanikumar](https://discourse.chef.io/u/phanikumar)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/can-we-install-chef-server-on-windows/10402/1 "2017-02-13T18:38:40Z")

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I have installed chef server on Linux machine and I assumed chef server is not supported on windows. But, I found a document on Chef website where they have specified that chef server installation on windows as untested **[https://docs.chef.io/install\_server\_pre.html](https://docs.chef.io/install_server_pre.html)** by which I am assuming we have a source to install chef server on windows by chef team have not tested it. It would be great if I could get some confirmation on whether we can install chef server on windows or not. If we can install, I need some links which specifies the procedure for it.

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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/can-we-install-chef-server-on-windows/10402/2 "2017-02-13T18:43:23Z")

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Erlang and Ruby both run on Windows, as does Postgres and anything Java-based (so Solr or ElasticSearch). Put that all together and there is no obvious reason you couldn’t build yourself a Chef Server on Windows I guess. But “not tested” is perhaps underselling things, it would be better to say “no one has tried this and you’ll be starting from scratch”. Probably just use a Linux machine 🙂 If you really have to use Windows for some reason, probably try using Goiardi first (minimalist Go implementation of Chef Server).