# Official cookbook to install kibana 4 **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [February 27, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/official-cookbook-to-install-kibana-4/42906 "2016-02-27T02:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Srinivasan\_Ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srinivasan_ramaswamy/32/74106_2.png) [@Srinivasan\_Ramaswamy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Srinivasan_Ramaswamy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/official-cookbook-to-install-kibana-4/42906/1 "2016-02-27T02:40:43Z")
I am looking for a chef cookbook to install kibana. I did find [kibana\_lwrp](https://github.com/lusis/chef-kibana) but it installs ngnix and stuff. This brings me to another question. Why do i need ngnix with kibana. Most of the articles i find online talk about using ngnix with kibana. I am going to use it inside an internal network, do i really need ngnix ? I played around with kibana after installing it locally and looks like it has a built in webserver. That looks good enough to me. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/official-cookbook-to-install-kibana-4/42906/2 "2016-02-28T03:10:02Z")
You don't _need_ nginx, KB will run perfectly fine by itself. Some people like to proxy things with it, some use it to provide basic auth. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/official-cookbook-to-install-kibana-4/42906/3 "2016-02-28T03:13:03Z")
This cookbook seems to be for Kibana 3, which did not have a server component. Kibana 4 does as you point out come with a built in web server and does not need nginx. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/official-cookbook-to-install-kibana-4/42906/4 "2017-07-06T14:00:51Z")