Use environment variables

This section lists the environment variables that you can use to change n8n's configuration settings when self-hosting n8n.

For the complete and most up-to-date list of all environment variables, see the full reference in the n8n docs repository: Full environment variables index.

File-based configuration

You can provide a configuration file for n8n. You can also append _FILE to certain variables to provide their configuration in a separate file.