Hey, I am using n8n via docker and would like to move env vars to file (if possible). I found some topics but most of useful docs links expired/has been moved. I made file /home/simon/.n8n/conf.json with following content: { "WORKFLOWS_DEFAULT_NAME": "sadasdasd" } Just to see if it’s working …

It says that the file does not exist and looking at what you wrote, does it make sense as you seem to create a file named /home/simon/.n8n/conf/json and then tell it to use one with a different name/path /home/simon/.n8n/conf.json. To be clear conf/json vs. conf.json Additionally does that file not…

Aaaah I made misspell I made file conf.json not conf/json I updated conf.json as you wrote so it’s: { "workflows": { "defaultName": "sadasdasd" } } And unfortunately it says same error, this file we mean on server not inside container, don’t we? [image]

@Shirobachi so the path you are setting would need to be relative to the container not the host. If you map that file to the container then use the container path you should be good to go.

Three additional question about config I had those three variable set via docker command -e N8N_HOST="n8n.hryszko.dev" \ -e N8N_PORT=443 \ -e N8N_PROTOCOL="https" \ So I modified conf.json file like that: { "host": "n8n.hryszko.dev", "port": 433, "protocol": "https", "security": { "bas…

Hey @Shirobachi , I have not played with the config too much but with the first part do you see an error? It doesn’t look like the Vue app url is available as a config file option at the moment. Password hashes are done using bcrypt so if you wanted a pass of CorrectHorseBatteryStaple the hashed r…

About host: So docker print this output: docker stop n8n; docker rm n8n; docker run --restart always --name n8n -p 127.0.0.1:5678:443 -e WEBHOOK_TUNNEL_URL="https://n8n.hryszko.dev/" -e VUE_APP_URL_BASE_API="https://n8n.hryszko.dev" -e NODE_FUNCTION_ALLOW_EXTERNAL="moment,lodash" -e N8N_CONFIG_FIL…

Yes, VUE_APP_URL_BASE_API can not be set via that file. You can use an environment file for that: docker run docker run: The `docker run` command first `creates` a writeable container layer over the specified image, and then `starts` it using the specified command. That is, `docker run…

Btw. can you not simply use the docker-compose setup from the Server Setup Guide ? Because that makes it very simple and everything will then work correctly.

So it looks like you are using different ports 433 and 443 but still proxying back to 5678. Have you made sure it is listening locally?

Yes, actually yes I change it to docker_compose, and it works just fine :slight_smile: Could you please advise about hashing? I should put bcrypt hash in env var instead of password, right? I used CyberChef to generate hash (10 rounds) but it did, not working ;/

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Jon January 1, 2022, 12:35pm 13

If it helps I took the password hash info from a post Jan made before which you can find here: Securing Basic Auth Password - #4 by jan

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