Hard time figuring out how to set up the free project?

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Hey!

I’ve worked with Directus CMS on an small project earlier on within a game.

Now, I’ve recently set up our own server and we want to make use of CMS internally.
We’d love to set up the “free project”, as our revenue isn’t even getting to €2K.

But, whenever I try to create the project, I am only able to do an 14 day trail, and not set up an free project?

Any clues on what I’m doing wrong, or how I could get through this process?

Thanks in advance!

(I’m talking about this, with the self hosted version, it says that I need to create an project, but tells me that I have to pay / use the trail when doing this.)

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(Im fairly new to Directus)

When you run the command npx directus-template-cli@latest init you should see a prompt and after following the instructions you should see a docker-compose file.

To start the instance you can install docker and run docker compose up inside the folder

also a side note:

Before running the compose command I’d suggest updating the version inside the docker-compose.yaml file
image: directus/directus:11.14.1 -> image: directus/directus:11.15.1

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Hey @Swurfyy!

The page you found is for Directus Cloud, which is our managed hosting offering. That’s where you’d see the trial and all that.

What you’re looking for is the self-hosted route. Check out https://directus.io/docs/self-hosting/overview for all the details on getting that up and running on your own server :+1: