<![CDATA[Cannot set environment variables]]>Hello everyone,
I'd like to know what is the way to set custom env variables in this app.
I tried setting them in the /app/data/env and restarting the app, but that didn't seem to work. Specifically, I exported N8N_BLOCK_ENV_ACCESS_IN_NODE as false (that should be the default), but still no luck.
How could this be achieved?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/8757/cannot-set-environment-variablesRSS for NodeMon, 08 Jun 2026 10:47:38 GMTThu, 02 Mar 2023 07:21:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:14:58 GMT]]>@girish Thank you, I can corroborate it works even if it's showing an error in the node field.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62745https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62745Sun, 05 Mar 2023 06:14:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:04:29 GMT]]>@garza Looks like this is a known issue. See https://community.n8n.io/t/no-access-to-env/20665/ . Using the environment variable will work it seems, just the preview in the UI does not work.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62687https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62687Fri, 03 Mar 2023 11:04:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:57:14 GMT]]>@girish Yes, at least I tried with N8N_LOG_LEVEL to change it to the debug level and that worked without any problem.

I'm testing the env updates the regular way, changing the /app/data/env (now /app/data/env.sh in today's app update) and restarting the app. Then, specifically for the N8N_BLOCK_ENV_ACCESS_IN_NODE flag, I'm testing in node fields that accept an expression, but still without access (please refer to the screenshot attached).

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]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62667https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62667Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:57:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:04:35 GMT]]>@garza Do other variables work ? Maybe try to change something which is easy to check and check if that works. How are you reproducing the issue ? I can check in a test installation and we can see if it's a package issue or upstream bug.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62649https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62649Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:04:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:47:23 GMT]]>@girish Yes, I put it that way, but that doesn't seem to work.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62647https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62647Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:47:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Cannot set environment variables on Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:24:06 GMT]]>@garza Did you put the export in the front? Like this:

export N8N_BLOCK_ENV_ACCESS_IN_NODE=false
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62634https://forum.cloudron.io/post/62634Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:24:06 GMT