How do I copy Lichess

I want to make my own chess website, kind of like lichess. i have copied code, but can't find anything to paste it. so if a mod or dev or even thibault himself could like make a temporary feature or something that will help me be able to make my own online chess website, that would be the best, and i would be sure to give you and the lichess team a big thanks.

@ALucasM said in #1:
> I want to make my own chess website, kind of like lichess. i have copied code, but can't find anything to paste it. so if a mod or dev or even thibault himself could like make a temporary feature or something that will help me be able to make my own online chess website, that would be the best, and i would be sure to give you and the lichess team a big thanks.
U need Ur own Server for tht. A Server is a Kind of computer, tht is used for the Website and is always on

A server is a computer that answers the requests of other computers. If you want to make your own chess server, you will need a computer. To learn how to "paste" the code, you will need to learn how to use git. Then you need to learn how to build the different compontens and how to run them. If you check out the list in the link below, everything called "backend" is stuff you need for the programs to run on the server and "frontend" is stuff needed to let users interact with your chess server:

lichess.org/source

You will need to learn a lot! I have installed servers and services on them, but never a chess server. It is quite complicated to get running well. You might end up finding out that you do not really want a chess server. Maybe you are happy just making some resources available for lichess.org to run analysis on, for instance, but you will learn a lot!

Good luck

This is the meta version of 'how do i make a bot'?

Well, if you copy the source code and paste it somewhere else, its just lichess on another address right?

Make your own code.

@Alientcp said in #7:
> Well, if you copy the source code and paste it somewhere else, its just lichess on another address right?
>
> Make your own code.
I don't think your argument is correct because lichess is open source for a reason. The devs let people use their code because it's not for profit. Think about how many hours would it take to make a well designed, multiplayer website. If you use lichess' code, you could replace chess rules with your own, chess related game. And for proof, here are two websites that use the lichess template: www.pychess.org/ ,which is like lichess but with more variants, and lidraughts.org/,which is lichess but with checkers.

@superflash2017 Im not saying you are stealing it. Im saying that lichess IS its code. If you put it somewhere else, its still lichess right? You havent changed a thing, except the address where its hosted.

Here's a guide on setting up a lichess development environment: github.com/ornicar/lila/wiki/Lichess-Development-Onboarding.