# Listmonk: how to start the app with an option for using own templates?
**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037
**Category:** Support apps
**Tags:** deutsch, english
**Created:** [November 5, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037 "2023-11-05T06:39:28Z")
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### Author:  [@tinder](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/tinder)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037/1 "2023-11-05T06:39:28Z")
### My YunoHost server
**Hardware:** VPS bought online
**YunoHost version:** 11.2.5. stable
**I have access to my server :** Through SSH | through the webadmin
**Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?** : no
**If yes, please explain:** –
**If your request is related to an app, specify its name and version:** listmonk 2.5.1~ynh2
### Description of my issue
Hello all,
I 've installed listmunk. Until now my first steps working fine. 🙂
I want to customize the templates. I read I ve to copy the static-Folder from github ([listmonk/static at master · knadh/listmonk · GitHub](https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/tree/master/static)) and start listmonk with a special option.
**My question:**
How can I start listmonk with the following command in yunohost system?
```auto
./listmonk --static-dir=my/custom/path
```
Which file in yunohost I ve to edit?
Can someone give me an advice?
Thank you so much
Tinder
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### Author:  [@rodinux](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/rodinux)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037/2 "2023-11-06T19:21:06Z")
I think you can edit directly in the admin webui of listmonk a personal template to use after…
Go to Campaigns =\> Models and create a template, you can look the models to have an idea. Then you can choose your personal template…
Then if you want use CLI commands, you can try with root user
```auto
cd /var/www/listmonk
sudo -u listmonk ./listmonk --help
```
I am not sure about this… but yes after a test it should works…
Be careful also with the permissions of the files they must be owned by `listmonk:www-data`
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### Author:  [@tinder](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/tinder)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037/3 "2023-11-19T06:46:16Z")
Thank you very much for your tips. I’m afraid I expressed myself a little badly: I wasn’t talking about the templates for the campaigns. I was talking about the templates for the list view, for example, or the subscription form under `/subscription/form`.
I would like to change something there. And to do this, I need to add a parameter to the start of listmonk (as a service) in Yunohost. But how do I start the service regularly with the parameter? The parameter should specify the path to the templates. - At least that’s how I understood it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/listmonk-how-to-start-the-app-with-an-option-for-using-own-templates/27037/4 "2023-12-04T06:46:29Z")
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