Hey, Newbie here. I installed n8n via NPM, configured nginx, all good, saves data, reachable from the web, love it. But I can’t figure ot where the config file is, where I can set up authentication. The install docs mention a .env file - but is that also for NMP install (no docker) ? I added th…

Welcome to the community. Did you check? Configuration methods | n8n Docs How to set environment variables for n8n.

Hello @RicardoE105 , thank you for replying. I did check, and there is no word about a config file. I did find a config file in .n8n and by adding anything to that file in JSON format didn’t affect my instance. In fact I can’t see anything in the Config description regarding where the file can be …

Same question here: [image] Nginx and n8n Questions Hello everyone, I have n8n running in docker with an open port 5678. How can I use nginx to set authorization on it by login and password? But it was never answered. What does environmental variables mean and where t…

Just set an env variable to in the process. Depending on your operating system, the way to do it might vary. For Linux and macOS, you can do: export THE_NAME=THE_VALUE For example: To set the timezone, you can do export GENERIC_TIMEZONE=Europe/Berlin The possible env variables that you can set…

Thank you for pointing me to the right direction! Now I know where to research. I’ll post my solution here once I find it :slight_smile:

Hey @joeyk did you find solution? i’m currently in the same situation :smiling_face_with_tear: i tried to do some chatgpt 4 solutions, he gave me this: `Navigate to C:\Users\USERNAME.n8n. Create a new text file there named env.txt. Open the env.txt file and add the following environment variable…

Hi, sorry, I don’t use windows. I think yours is a different issue. Don’t listen to chatgpt :smiley:

@kravzz1 What you posted actually worked for me. I was struggling to get my n8n install on windows via npm to take the N8N_HOST variable using a JSON config file. I followed the chatgpt instructions in your post, created a file simply named .env and then opened it with a text editor, put the lines …

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Same question here:

But it was never answered. What does environmental variables mean and where to edit them in case of a NPM install ? I don’t want to use docker at this point.

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