# Kong installation

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-installation/832>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-installation/832 "2018-04-16T04:39:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![nikhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b782af/32.png) [@nikhil](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/nikhil)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-installation/832/1 "2018-04-16T04:39:37Z")

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Can we install kong if we alredy have a nginx running in in our system?

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**Author:** ![bungle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/bungle/32/13_2.png) [@bungle](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/bungle)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-installation/832/2 "2018-04-17T18:04:41Z")

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Yes, but you cannot share same ports they are bind to. But Kong is Nginx, so one option is just move everything in your Nginx to Kong, and use custom Nginx template with Kong:

> **[Open-Source API Management and Microservice Management](https://docs.konghq.com/0.13.x/configuration/)**
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> Secure, Manage & Extend your APIs or Microservices with plugins for authentication, logging, rate-limiting, transformations and more.

So both will work, side-by-side or moving to Kong only.

Or you can have them in layers, e.g. nginx proxies to kong or kong proxies to nginx.