Self-Host n8n for Free - using npm

In this tutorial, I will briefly walk you through one of the many methods to self host n8n.

This targets people who use n8n on a personal basis and not for any clients.

Firstly, I followed the documentation, which is well put together.

All you do is:

Open the terminal

Run npx n8n

After installation is done you should get a message in your terminal to open http://localhost:5678/

That’s it !

Check the tutorial above for visual instructions on how to setup locally and for running your first workflow. I ran my JSON-LD generator workflow, which is a data structure that is needed to help you appear on AI Searches.

Video Tutorial

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