First problems as a neophyte

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Hello everyone,
I am a brand new N8N user and wanted to study it for a personal project. I created a test Ubuntu 24.04LTS VM on which I loaded NodeJS 20 and NPM which I used to make the N8N installer (I am not a docker fan). The installation was successful and in fact if I call up IP_MACHINE:5678 the page loads, however, it does not allow me to go forward because the system expects an HTTPS connection.

Since I am just starting out I do not have an SSL certificate so I wanted to set the global variable N8N_SECURE_COOKIE to false however the error remains. I tried exporting N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false from both root and standard user but nothing changes. If I check the environment variables I see them correctly set.

I tried looking for a configuration file but I couldn’t find anything.

Can any good soul give me some tips on how I can overcome the problem of accessing the N8N system?

thank you very much

  • n8n version: last
  • Database (default: SQLite): unknown
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): unknown
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): installed with NPM, pm2 for autoexec
  • Operating system: Ubuntu Server 24.04 on Hyper-V
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It looks like your topic is missing some important information. Could you provide the following if applicable.

  • n8n version:
  • Database (default: SQLite):
  • n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):
  • Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app):
  • Operating system:
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I was able to solve it. After setting the environment variables I restarted n8n via pm2 with this code

pm2 restart n8n --update-env
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