Hello everyone,
i have installed n8n via npm.
We also actively use this for our internal helpdesk.
So far we are really very satisfied!
However, I am currently encountering the first hurdles regarding the configuration.
I would like to authenticate myself with Dropbox using OAuth2, but the callback URL only shows the localhost.
According to the documentation I only have to change the configuration under /root/.n8n/config.
However, the set values are not applied here.
The current configuration looks like this:
{
“encryptionKey”: “xxxxx”,
“endpoints”: {
“webhook”: {
“format”: “String”,
“default”: “https://n8n.xxxx.de:5678/webhook”,
“env”: “N8N_ENDPOINT_WEBHOOK”,
“doc”: “URL for Webhook”
}
},
“host”: {
“format”: “String”,
“default”: “n8n.xxxx.de”,
“arg”: “host”,
“env”: “N8N_HOST”,
“doc”: “Host name n8n can be reached”
}
}
Hence my question.
Does anyone know how I can apply these settings?
At the moment these configurations seem to have no effect.
Many thanks in advance!!
Hey @razertechDE!
Welcome to the community 
Can you please share the link to the documentation that you are following? I am trying to replicate your issue and want to make sure I do it correctly. This will help me give you an accurate solution.
Thanks.
Hey @harshil1712,
thank you for your reply!
I’ve tried following this configuration:
Many thanks in advance!
Hey @razertechDE!
Did you run the command export N8N_CONFIG_FILES=PATH-TO-CONFIGURATION-FILE?
I followed the steps mentioned in the documentation, created a config.json file, and ran the above command, replacing PATH-TO-CONFIGURATION-FILE with the actual file path. These steps worked for me.
Let me know if this helps.
Hey @harshil1712,
thank you very much for your fast reply & help!
No, I’ve didn’t run the command.
Some time before I tried to make some adjustments via the export variables.
However, this never had any effect on the n8n.
To test if the json file is generally used, I put a bug in it & then entered the “n8n” command in the CLI.
n8n then reported that the /root/.n8n/config file is not a real JSON file.
From this I concluded that the file is loaded.
I will try it right now with the export variable you mentioned & then I will give you a feedback!
Many thanks!!
Hey @harshil1712,
so I’ve ran the following command:
export N8N_CONFIG_FILES=/home/n8n_config.json
(copied the file before to the mentioned path)
And restartet n8n by running pm2 restart n8n
But there has still nothing changed…
Any ideas?
Many thanks in advance!
Hey @razertechDE,
I don’t have a lot of experience with pm2 and my knowledge is very limited here. I will try to use pm2 and recreate the issue. I came across this documentation for pm2 that might help.
Hey @harshil1712,
got it!
So one point is pm2.
It seems, that it’s not loading the provided config under /home/n8n_config.json
The other point is, that when running n8n manually by using “n8n”-Command, I found out, that the config is invalid.
It should look like this:
{
“endpoints”: {
“webhook”: “h t t p s://n8n.xxxx.de:5678/webhook”
},
“host”: “n8n.xxxx.de”
}
(instead of my previously posted version.)
((h t t p s, because I am not allowed, to post more than two links…)
So I think, that maybe the documentation needs to be tuned here.
I’ve followed the instructions and opened up this link:
"All possible values which can be set and their defaults can be found here:
n8n/index.ts at master · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub"
Because there were no further instructions, I thought, that I need to copy the exact structure into my config file.
The working result really differes from these values. (github)
Many many thanks for your help!
@razertechDE I am assuming that you found the solution.
I can understand where the documentation can get confusing. I have added it to my To-Do list and will update the docs.
Thank you for the feedback
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