Install self hosted n8n on a vm

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hi all,

want to self host n8n locally on a vm at home, do i just follow this guide

ie install npm on my rocky vm then

npm install n8n -g
n8n start

do i need to install next?

then whats the port to open it on the web

thanks,
rob

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Hi there, you can follow that guide definitely,but first make sure you have npm installed on your vm and then you can follow that guide

and then you do not need to install the next version, unless you really need to, as in you want to try the pre-release or the beta version of n8n

and for the port, it should be by default to be 5678

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thanks @fahmiiireza also ive seen some guides where i need to NAT it on my fw, do i need to do that?

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no @robertkwild u don’t need to do that to be able to run n8n succesfully on your computer, but let’s say you want to access the n8n from other devices then yea, you need to set up NAT in order to make that happen

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thanks @fahmiiireza as im selfhosting ollama aswell (with deepseek and openwebui) so can i use n8n with my self hosted ai

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mmm… getting this

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yes, you can definitely do that, you just need to configure the ollama properly for it to be able to be used in n8n and for the ollama part, i suggest you also follow this tutorial

if this answers your question please give all of them a like and mark it as the solution as it would greatly help me and the community

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how are you accessing it? you use localhost right? and not use safari

http://localhost:5678

what you are seeing here is because of the cookie policy, which you can turn it off by setting this env variables to false

N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false

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thanks @fahmiiireza i googled it lol, so il make a cronjob to start n8n automatically when linux starts and as the exports isnt persistent il do this in script

#!/bin/bash

export N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false
n8n start

is there a way i can do this without a script ie systemctl enable n8n etc

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ive read the starter kit and this is to install n8n/ollama all on one server but in my situation ive installed ollama on my pc which is windows and my n8n instance is on a linux vm

let me know

thanks,
rob

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