posts/n8n-self-hosted/

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posts/n8n-self-hosted/

n8n is a powerful self-hosted workflow automation tool. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to self-host n8n on Linux using Docker. You’ll learn how to set up the environment, configure it with a .env file, and build workflows that connect to services like Google Sheets and Discord.

https://technotim.live/posts/n8n-self-hosted/

[mike12806]

Hey Tim - you're missing the NODE_ENV env variable in these instructions. Wanted to call it out in case anyone else sees this. Will see if I can open a PR for your docs in your Github, too.

[timothystewart6]

Thank you so much! I just fixed it. Good eye!

[mrfoxie]

it is not working i am geting this error all the time

No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found
No encryption key found - Auto-generating and saving to: /home/node/.n8n/config
Error: Command "start" not found

i have used the following config

╭─ [root  mistrysiddh] [~/n8n]
╰─❯ cat docker-compose.yml
services:
  n8n:
    image: n8nio/n8n
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "5678:5678"
    env_file:
      - .env
    volumes:
      - ./data:/home/node/.n8n
      - ./files:/files
    depends_on:
      - postgres

  # If you're running your own external PostgreSQL instance, you can comment out this service
  postgres:
    image: postgres:15
    restart: always
    env_file:
      - .env
    volumes:
      - ./postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

[Amirhossein-Moghadam]

The n8n container runs as the node user, which has a user ID (UID) of 1000 and group ID (GID) of 1000 in the n8nio/n8n image. For n8n to read and write to /home/node/.n8n (and thus ./data on the host), the node user needs appropriate permissions on the host directory.

Run these commands in the path that you've configured the n8n. According to the video: (/opt/stacks/n8n):

chmod -R 755 ./data
chown -R 1000:1000 ./data