windows-local.mdx

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Local Installation on Windows	Welcome to our official documentation!

Getting started

Learn how to host the site locally and and deploy it to the public.

Please ensure you have all prerequisites installed. This tutorial is for Windows users. Visit https://nodejs.org/en and download the reccomended version.

Open the installer and complete the installation.

Installation

Visit https://github.com/InterstellarNetwork/Interstellar/archive/refs/heads/main.zip and then once the download completes, extract the files.

Once the intallation is finished move onto the next step. Press ⊞ Win + R, Type cmd, Click Enter

Then run

cd Users\YOURUSERNAME\Downloads\Interstellar-main\Interstellar-main

Now run the following command to install the dependecies.

npm install

```bash npm npm run start ``` By default Interstellar runs on port 8080, if would like to change the port run the following command: ```bash npm $env:PORT=3000; npm run start ```