# Downloading the Configuration Files

In the "The Basics" section, we showed how [docker-compose](/the-basics/docker-compose.md) can be used to run a whoami container. We'll be using a similar approach will to run the Coti node. This section describes the files we'll be using to define our Docker containers, and gives a command to download them on to your server.

## Summary of the Configuration Files

Here is a summary of the files that will be downloaded in this step, and what each file does:

* [`docker-compose.yml`](https://github.com/tomjwells/coti-node/blob/master/docker-compose.yml)
  * This file tells Docker to run two containers, one of which is the Coti node, and the other is a web server called [Traefik](https://traefik.io/traefik/). 
  * The Coti node container runs the fullnode application. 
  * Traefik performs a few roles, including issuing/renewing SSL certificates, redirecting requests received on port `80` to port `443`, and forwarding requests received on ports `443` and `7070` to the Coti node container. 
* [`traefik_conf.yml`](https://github.com/tomjwells/coti-node/blob/master/traefik_conf.yml)
  * This is a configuration file that is specific to the Traefik web server, and contains some additional settings required to generate SSL certificates that get an A+ rating with [SSL Labs](https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/).

Feel free to look through these files, although it's not necessary to edit or understand them to follow the guide and get your node installed.

## Copying the Configuration Files

The command below creates a new directory (called `coti-node`), and downloads the two configuration files into the new directory.

```
mkdir coti-node &&\
 cd coti-node &&\
 curl -sLJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomjwells/coti-node/master/docker-compose.yml &&\
 curl -sLJO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomjwells/coti-node/master/traefik_conf.yml
```

You can use `ls` to check that the files were downloaded successfully. This should show two new files in the `coti-node` directory: `docker-compose.yml` and `traefik_conf.yml`.

## Summary

If the command above was successful, you now have the configuration files you need to run your node. In the next step, we'll create one last file called `.env`, which allows you to specify the unique information (like private key, seed key and server name) required to set up your node.


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