Need help deploying to server

Questions
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Hello,

I’m new here, this has been incredible over the last few days playing with this software, I’ve cloned the n8n git repo from GitHub - n8n-io/n8n: Free and open fair-code licensed node based Workflow Automation Tool. Easily automate tasks across different services. locally and removed all the nodes as I stripped it back to add my own custom nodes and then add a few original nodes afterwards to keep it simple, I’m now looking to deploy to a server, I was hoping heroku would be easy to do, I had previously cloned a git repo made specifically for n8n and heroku but I couldn’t access the nodes folder to add my own custom nodes, does anyone have any advice on how to deploy my local version with my custom nodes?

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Hey @Joshua_Riley!

Welcome to the community :sparkling_heart:

You can build the Docker image for your repo and use that. The other way is to clone the repo on the server and run it using PM2. I hope this gives an idea on how you can move forward :slight_smile:

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Hello,

Thanks for the reply, how would I go about using PM2 with n8n?

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Hey! You find out on our documentation here: https://docs.n8n.io/reference/setup-pm2.html

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This seems like it only works with the default n8n from npm, how can I use this for my own n8n local version with custom nodes?

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To run your repository you will have to run PM2 from that folder. The documentation of PM2 will guide you much better :slight_smile: