Docker documentation: case for users with VPN

[F041]

Bug Description

as mentioned: https://docs.n8n.io/hosting/configuration/environment-variables/security/, as a VPN user (Tailscale) that installed the service on a VPS, so I can't access the URL via localhost, I had the problem
your n8n server is configured to use a secure cookie, however you are visiting this via an insecure URL
so I solved with a custom docker-compose.yml. Can you please add it in the documentation?
about the forcing the HTTPS, can you add another docker-compose.yml with something like Traefik?
Especially this part confuses me in the case of the URL that uses the IPv4 address of Tailscale

[...]
 labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.n8n.rule=Host(`yourdomain.com`)"
[...]

To Reproduce

docker volume create n8n_data
docker run -it -d --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n

Expected behavior

a setup running without issues

Operating System

Ubuntu server 22.04

n8n Version

latest

Node.js Version

latest

Database

SQLite (default)

Execution mode

main (default)

[Joffcom]

Hey @F041,

Can you clarify what the bug is that you are reporting? It looks like what you are seeing is expected and you would likely not be using Traefik if you are running n8n on a VPS that needs a VPN to access it.

[F041]

Hey @F041,

Can you clarify what the bug is that you are reporting? It looks like what you are seeing is expected and you would likely not be using Traefik if you are running n8n on a VPS that needs a VPN to access it.

Not a bug. Just a request to expand the documentation to aid more users

[Joffcom]

Hey @F041,

In that case as it is not a bug I am going to close this as we only use GitHub issues for bug tracking. If you can be a bit clearer on what you think we should document though I can look at opening a docs issue for that.

We do consider self hosting an advanced feature and we can't document every possible configuration option so we do tend to lean towards what is going to help the most users and for other things rely on the knowledge of the user configuring it. In this case I am still not sure why you would be using Traefik if you are using a VPN to access n8n but I think we do make it clear on the error page what needs to be done.

Always happy to look at improving the docs where possible if it makes sense to though