Error when activating self hosted community edition

stuartleech · October 28, 2025, 11:50am

Hello,

I’m trying to activate my self hosted version of n8n to get the additional features.

When I recieve the email and click the link I get this error:

Activation failed

User is missing a scope required to perform this action

I’ve tried resending the email a few times to no avail, any hints?

Thanks

mohamed3nan · October 28, 2025, 5:59pm

Hi @stuartleech

Honestly I always just copy the license key and paste it manually into the settings page..
I haven’t tried clicking the links in the email

stuartleech · October 31, 2025, 10:00am

Where do you paste it though? I don’t seem to have a field for the license?

Parintele_Damaskin · October 31, 2025, 10:23am

I have version 1.113.3 and ui is different.

stuartleech · October 31, 2025, 10:47am

I’m on: 1.117.3

Parintele_Damaskin · October 31, 2025, 12:48pm

First try clear caches and try again, or if you use any proxy be sure to set this :
N8N_PROTOCOL=https
N8N_HOST=your.domain.com
N8N_PORT=443
N8N_EDITOR_BASE_URL=https://your.domain.com/
WEBHOOK_URL=https://your.domain.com/

mohamed3nan · October 31, 2025, 3:41pm

hmm weird,
this is how it should looks like