n8n community node installation problem

I added the commands below to the Dockerfile... in another installation it worked perfectly, but I had to destroy it and in the new one it doesn't work

RUN mkdir /home/node/.n8n/nodes

WORKDIR /home/node/.n8n/nodes

RUN npm i n8n-nodes-chatroot n8n-nodes-text-manipulation

The logs follow:

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The community nodes were installed but I still can't use them in editor on n8n

It appears there was a failure when trying to renew the license. This could be due to an uninitialized certificate.

This issue appears not to be directly related to n8n workflows or nodes, but rather to license and certificate issues.

Log:

2024-03-07T13:16:02.502Z | error | Failed to renew license: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized "{\n stack: 'Error: renewal failed because current cert is not initialized\n' +\n ' at C._renew (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@n8n_io/license-sdk/dist/LicenseManager.js:29:3103)\n' +\n ' at C.renew (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/@n8n_io/license-sdk/dist/LicenseManager.js:29:2983)\n' +\n ' at License.renew (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/License.js:175:28)\n' +\n ' at LicenseService.renewLicense (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/license/license.service.js:66:32)\n' +\n ' at LicenseController.renewLicense (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/license/license.controller.js:28:35)\n' +\n ' at handler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/decorators/registerController.js:78:78)\n' +\n ' at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/dist/ResponseHelper.js:103:32\n' +\n ' at newFn (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/express-async-errors/index.js:16:20)\n' +\n ' at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)\n' +\n ' at next (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:144:13)',\n file: 'license.service.js',\n function: 'mapErrorMessage'\n}"


How could I execute these commands on Railway, to use the n8n community nodes installed in queue mode?


2 years ago

this would need to be done in the dockerfile


Hi @Brody

I did it using dockerfile, I didn't notice any abnormalities in the log, but I don't see the two community nodes that I installed on n8n

Interestingly, I did this successfully a while ago, but it no longer works.

FROM n8nio/n8n:1.44.1

USER node

RUN mkdir ~/.n8n/nodes

WORKDIR ~/.n8n/nodes

RUN npm i n8n-nodes-chatroot

RUN npm i n8n-nodes-text-manipulation

ARG PGPASSWORD

ARG PGHOST

ARG PGPORT

ARG PGDATABASE

ARG PGUSER

ENV DB_TYPE=postgresdb

ENV DB_POSTGRESDB_DATABASE=$PGDATABASE

ENV DB_POSTGRESDB_HOST=$PGHOST

ENV DB_POSTGRESDB_PORT=$PGPORT

ENV DB_POSTGRESDB_USER=$PGUSER

ENV DB_POSTGRESDB_PASSWORD=$PGPASSWORD

ARG ENCRYPTION_KEY

ENV N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY=$ENCRYPTION_KEY

CMD ["n8n start"]

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I followed the n8n documentation

https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/community-nodes/installation/manual-install/

If you could test it out I would be grateful.


2 years ago

How have you verified that railway is using that Dockerfile to build with?


I managed to solve it here with a tip from a follower of my YouTube channel

In Primary variables I put regular mode EXECUTIONS_MODE=regular

I installed the community nodes in n8n UI settings

I returned the variable EXECUTIONS_MODE=queue and added the variable

N8N_REINSTALL_MISSING_PACKAGES=true.

Thank you for your attention!


2 years ago

glad you where able to solve it!


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