Configuring environment variables for n8n installation on DigitalOcean Droplet

bgschust · February 7, 2023, 1:45am

What exactly are the environment variables that I need to change for a DigitalOcean installation of n8n? I am also attempting to install this via the DO app platform.

The documentation was a bit vague:

MutedJam · February 14, 2023, 10:56am

Hi @bgschust, that would be the values from the repository that’s part of the documentation I believe. You can find the full .env file here:

github.com

n8n-io/n8n-docker-caddy/blob/main/.env

# Path where you created folders earlier. 
# Change this if you didn't create them in the repo checked out in the root directory.
DATA_FOLDER=/root/n8n-docker-caddy

# The top level domain to serve from, this should be the same as the subdomain you created above
DOMAIN_NAME=example.com

# The subdomain to serve from
SUBDOMAIN=n8n

# DOMAIN_NAME and SUBDOMAIN combined decide where n8n will be reachable from
# above example would result in: https://n8n.example.com

# The user name to use for authentication - IMPORTANT ALWAYS CHANGE!
N8N_BASIC_AUTH_USER=user

# The password to use for authentication - IMPORTANT ALWAYS CHANGE!
N8N_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD=password

# Optional timezone to set which gets used by Cron-Node by default

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Though tbh I am not sure why N8N_BASIC_AUTH_USER and N8N_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD are part of this while N8N_BASIC_AUTH_ACTIVE isn’t (meaning basic auth is disabled anyway). My personal preference would be setting only a few variables right in the docker compose file (like so).

You can also find a full list of environment variables in our documentation in case you’d like to configure more than just the example settings: