Describe the problem/error/question I have installed n8n community edition on DO droplet using docker/compose/withPosgres/docker-compose.yml configuration. What is the error message (if any)? Almost everything works just fine but on Edit Workflow, for webhook, when start “Listen for test event”, i…

Are you running n8n behind a reverse-proxy? like nginx, traefik, or caddy?

what version of nginx are you running? it sounds like you might need to either update the config tp handle websockets better, or might need to upgrade nginx.

Here is the nginx version nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) One more specifics - I installed n8n on subdomain e.g. workflow.example.com if that would make any difference. Could you please elaborate what should be nginx config adjustments I need to make for the subdomain to make it work? Thanks!

Sorry, but we can not provide support with any kind of server setup. That would simply eat up a lot of support time. For that reason, do we have multiple ones documented in our docs. Here is for example one for Digital Ocean: Digital Ocean | n8n Docs Documentation for n8n, a workflow au…

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Angel_Todorov March 15, 2024, 9:01am 7

Thanks guys! In fact this solution here - WebSockets in 1.0 fixed it.

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