Environment variables overview#
This section lists the environment variables that you can use to change n8n's configuration settings when self-hosting n8n.
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.
- Binary data
- Credentials
- Database
- Deployment
- Endpoints
- Executions
- External data storage
- External hooks
- External secrets
- Insights
- Logs
- License
- Nodes
- Queue mode
- Security
- Source control
- Task runners
- Timezone and localization
- User management and 2FA
- Workflows
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