Install customer Node on Self-hosted / Digital Ocean / Caddy / Docker Compose setup

Questions
1

Hi

I have modified an existing community node to fix some issues. I’ve done this locally (actually on a GitHub codespace).

I now want to test my node on my n8n.io instances which is hosted on Digital Ocean (having followed the instructions at Digital Ocean | n8n Docs

In the docker-compose.yml (which I haven’t changed(


  n8n:
    image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 5678:5678
    environment:
      - N8N_HOST=${SUBDOMAIN}.${DOMAIN_NAME}
      - N8N_PORT=5678
      - N8N_PROTOCOL=https
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - WEBHOOK_URL=https://${SUBDOMAIN}.${DOMAIN_NAME}/
      - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=${GENERIC_TIMEZONE}
    volumes:
      - n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
      - ${DATA_FOLDER}/local_files:/files

I don’t have a /home/node/.n8n folder in the host filesystem and from reading elsewhere in the forum I think I’m supposed to put the node under .n8n/custom.

Any pointers to get me started?

thanks in advance

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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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Hey @Russell_Hutson,

It is a lot easier to test locally but if you want to do it in a container you could try adding your node to the .n8n/custom folder which can be found in the n8n_data volume. You may need to fix the permissions in the container as well using docker exec.