N8n nginx reverse proxy as sublocation

Questions
1

Hey i have nginx reverse proxy on my server and it serves few websites on /, /blog, /blahblahblah
and i want to serve n8n on /_apps/n8n.
1st request seems to work because in network i can see We're sorry but the n8n Editor-UI doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.
but other requests has no prefix /_apps/n8n . for example /assets/n8n-def62baf.css has no /_apps/n8n prefix and nginx redirects it to default 404 page.

nginx:

    location /_apps/n8n {
      proxy_buffering off;
      proxy_cache off;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      chunked_transfer_encoding off;
      proxy_set_header Connection '';
      proxy_pass "http://127.0.0.1:5678";
    }

docker cmd:
docker run -d -it --rm --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n

I tried to set env vars like N8N_HOST etc but it didnt work. maybe i set wrong values.

Can someone help me with this?

3

Hey @lumbaq,

Welcome to the community :cake:

Have you tried setting N8N_PATH and N8N_HOST? looking at your nginx config you will probably run into issues with websockets as well but that is something to work out once you at least get things loading.

4

EDIT: worked! but there is another problem. everywhere 401

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5

Hey @lumbaq

That could be because websockets are not configured, Try the config below and see if that helps. You may need to consult your server admin / nginx support team to confirm.

location /_apps/n8n {
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_pass "http://127.0.0.1:5678";
    }
6

nothing changed :frowning:

7

It may need tweaking, I think that is normally what works for Websockets but you may need to do something else for your environment.