# Run Knight Crawler

To run Knight Crawler you need two files, both can be found in the [deployment/docker](https://github.com/Gabisonfire/knightcrawler/tree/master/deployment/docker)
directory on GitHub:

- <path>deployment/docker/.env.example</path> 

- <path>deployment/docker/docker-compose.yaml</path>.

For this guide I will be placing them in a directory on my home drive <path>~/knightcrawler</path>.

Rename the <path>.env.example</path> file to be <path>.env</path>

```
~/
└── knightcrawler/
    ├── .env
    └── docker-compose.yaml
```

Before we start the services, we need to