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@robi I finally figured out how to get it work and play nice, with no thanks to Firewalla. Their customer service is by far the worst I've encountered and they don't provide any networking advice. Thanks to your documentation though, I learned a few things and changed the NUC to have the outbound IP address in /etc/hosts so *.62 my.nuc.com, along with additional lines for local networking. After several repeated reinstalls of our script (sorry, I commented out the lines that check if nginx, docker, or node are installed), I was able to get it work, but it was hacky at first. The issue here was that Cloudron does a request to get the IP address. Since I couldn't EXACTLY figure out how to tell Firewalla to assign that outbound IP to the machine, it would receive my default IP.... *.58. So, after it said "success go to *.58" I went there and it loaded up locally and then went into Cloudrons network config in the UI and specified .62 as the IP address. This then matched what I had in Cloudflare and was able to get everything back up and running!

I did have to make a change, and, again, thanks to your documentation it made it super simple. Email wasn't working. So, in the Firewalla I set the domain to "mrvl.lan" and then made the changes on the nuc to have:

server:
    private-domain: "mrvl.lan"
    domain-insecure: "mrvl.lan"

forward-zone: 
    name: "mrvl.lan"
    forward-addr: 192.168.195.2

I go back to the Firewalla and SSH into it and find their Unbound config, and added this line a line for "local-data-ptr" that has the WAN IP and the mail server domain... and... FINALLY.... it all worked. Now the only thing left is to mount my NAS to it and go crazy with apps as it's loaded up on memory (64GB) and plenty of onboard disk space LOL. I may be requesting more apps soon, specifically Plex, Radaar, etc to take the load off the NAS (it doesn't do Plex while having some VMs running).

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I'm just super excited to be out of paying Vultr $60+ a month and to have it local on a much more powerful machine, so I don't have to toggle apps on and off anymore. It's glorious!

ajtatum

I think anyone that has used n8n outside of Cloudron know that it has loads of potential. For me to move my n8n instance into Cloudron would be amazing, but without the ability to add npm packages as I need them would really slow down any prototyping & development.

However, I read some conversations where @roofboard has made some pretty awesome changes like integrating Python.

I kind of wanted to open the floor to see how, or if, it's possible to make n8n more extendable out of the box and, if not, if there could be clearer documentation on how to do things or at least a faster way than rebuilding & deploying when I just want to add a npm package.

Anyway, after speaking with @roofboard he thought it would also be best to create a thread to have a general discussion about this topic and see where it takes us!

I look forward to hearing from everyone and learning all the use cases!

ajtatum

@girish I'm not sure how I know this, but I've heard that with seedboxes when someone sets up a Plex Server you have to go to plex.tv/claim and it gives them a code so that the local Plex Server can be associated with that account without having to login first. I don't know if that helps at all, but like I said... it's just something I've heard.

ajtatum

I was excited to see this app in Cloudron as I was planning to install it myself, but when I tried to use web driver it said it couldn't be found. Is there a work around for this? I'm not familiar with the process, but could I upload a docker image to Cloudron and somehow point it to that? If not, then I guess my next options are to either self host or try browserless.io.

Let me know your thoughts...

ajtatum

Sorry to be pestering, but any luck here? Would really love to use this app!

ajtatum

Just wanted to let everyone know that getting this working in Portainer/docker compose is extremely easy and once I setup NGINX Proxy Manager (outside of Cloudron) it's pretty sweet.

Here's the docker compose script I used:

version: '3.3'
x-logging: &default-logging
  options:
    max-size: "200k"
    max-file: "10"
  driver: json-file
      
  changedetection:
      image: ghcr.io/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io:latest
      container_name: changedetection
      hostname: changedetection
      volumes:
        - changedetection-data:/datastore
      environment:
        - PORT=5000
        - PGID=${PGID}
        - PUID=${PUID}
        - TZ=${TZ}
        - WEBDRIVER_URL=http://browser-chrome:4444/wd/hub
        - PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL=ws://playwright-chrome:3000/?stealth=1&--disable-web-security=true
        - BASE_URL=http://192.168.195.150
      logging: *default-logging
      ports:
        - 5000:5000
      restart: unless-stopped
 
  browser-chrome:
    hostname: browser-chrome
    image: selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59
    environment:
       - VNC_NO_PASSWORD=1
       - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
       - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1080
       - SCREEN_DEPTH=24
    logging: *default-logging
    volumes:
       - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
    restart: unless-stopped
 
  playwright-chrome:
      hostname: playwright-chrome
      image: browserless/chrome:latest
      restart: unless-stopped
      environment:
          - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
          - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1024
          - SCREEN_DEPTH=16
          - ENABLE_DEBUGGER=false
          - PREBOOT_CHROME=true
          - CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=300000
          - MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS=10
          - CHROME_REFRESH_TIME=600000
          - DEFAULT_BLOCK_ADS=true
          - DEFAULT_STEALTH=true
      logging: *default-logging
      
volumes:
  changedetection-data:

PGID and PUID are 1000 in my use case. And TZ, for me, is set to America/New_York.

ajtatum

@girish That would be completely and totally awesome as that's really the only thing holding me back from migrating n8n to Cloudron... thanks for taking a look!

ajtatum

Would really, really love this addition.

ajtatum

@girish Oh man, thank you for working on this. I honestly am super stoked about this!

ajtatum

Any progress or additional thoughts on allowing users to install their own npm packages, @girish?

Thanks,
AJ

ajtatum

SerpBear - Open Source Search Engine Position Tracking App

SerpBear is an Open Source Search Engine Position Tracking App. It allows you to track your website's keyword positions in Google and get notified of their positions.

Features

Unlimited Keywords: Add unlimited domains and unlimited keywords to track their SERP.
Email Notification: Get notified of your keyword position changes daily/weekly/monthly through email.
SERP API: SerpBear comes with built-in API that you can use for your marketing & data reporting tools.
Google Search Console Integration: Get the actual visit count, impressions & more for Each keyword.
Mobile App: Add the PWA app to your mobile for a better mobile experience.

Stack

Next.js for Frontend & Backend.
Sqlite for Database.

IMO, Great Addition For Cloudron
Cloudron already features a variety of applications for small business owners and website operators, and having a tool such as SerpBear would save me a lot of money from using other tools (anywhere from $18-$50+ a month). I do recognize that it's technically not free beyond 10k lookups a month, as you'd have to pay ScrapingAnt fees after that.

ajtatum

@girish Sorry to awaken an old thread, but just wanted to give another vote for Plausible. I'm trying to have as few servers as possible, with the servers either being specifically for one or two specific apps or something like Cloudron (my Truenas Scale has a ton of apps, Synology NAS, and Ubuntu with Portainer). For business, looking at this, SerpBear, and Odoo. TrueNas has Odoo but for the other two it looks like I can either try Elest.io or spin up yet another server but try out Easy Panel. I've tried CapRover and had mixed experiences, and they also don't have SerpBear.

ajtatum

Sorry to revive an old topic, but Shlink is an amazing URL Shortener with a lot more options than Kutt or YOURLS. I've managed to get it working once some time ago, and I do recall it's a pain. My TrueNAS has both the Shlink CLI and UI as Apps, but they don't work and would really love to see this included in Cloudron. I know it's not the easiest app to install, but it has a ton of great features and reporting. Kutt is nice and quick and does the job, but lacks reporting and tracking.

ajtatum

I have exported all my Bitly links and was curious what the best way to import ~2k records would be. There's an API call for creating one URL at a time... so I could loop through them with some pacing in between, but was curious if it's possible to access Kutt's database directly and import them that way... or if that's more trouble then it's worth.

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

ajtatum

Hi,

Unless it was removed in a recent version, I installed Miniflux on Cloudron and noticed that the feeds didn't have the option to fetch them via proxy. I've had that option available when I hosted it outside of Cloudron and was just curious about that.

Thanks,
AJ

ajtatum

@girish To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. My n8n instance is setup so that the packages allowed are in both the environment file and get loaded as environment variables in the .bashrc script (I know it's doubling, but I can't recall which way worked). When there's an update, I just run npm install n8n@version, and then run pm2 restart and, well, it just works.

ajtatum

Just wanted to let everyone know that getting this working in Portainer/docker compose is extremely easy and once I setup NGINX Proxy Manager (outside of Cloudron) it's pretty sweet.

Here's the docker compose script I used:

version: '3.3'
x-logging: &default-logging
  options:
    max-size: "200k"
    max-file: "10"
  driver: json-file
      
  changedetection:
      image: ghcr.io/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io:latest
      container_name: changedetection
      hostname: changedetection
      volumes:
        - changedetection-data:/datastore
      environment:
        - PORT=5000
        - PGID=${PGID}
        - PUID=${PUID}
        - TZ=${TZ}
        - WEBDRIVER_URL=http://browser-chrome:4444/wd/hub
        - PLAYWRIGHT_DRIVER_URL=ws://playwright-chrome:3000/?stealth=1&--disable-web-security=true
        - BASE_URL=http://192.168.195.150
      logging: *default-logging
      ports:
        - 5000:5000
      restart: unless-stopped
 
  browser-chrome:
    hostname: browser-chrome
    image: selenium/standalone-chrome-debug:3.141.59
    environment:
       - VNC_NO_PASSWORD=1
       - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
       - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1080
       - SCREEN_DEPTH=24
    logging: *default-logging
    volumes:
       - /dev/shm:/dev/shm
    restart: unless-stopped
 
  playwright-chrome:
      hostname: playwright-chrome
      image: browserless/chrome:latest
      restart: unless-stopped
      environment:
          - SCREEN_WIDTH=1920
          - SCREEN_HEIGHT=1024
          - SCREEN_DEPTH=16
          - ENABLE_DEBUGGER=false
          - PREBOOT_CHROME=true
          - CONNECTION_TIMEOUT=300000
          - MAX_CONCURRENT_SESSIONS=10
          - CHROME_REFRESH_TIME=600000
          - DEFAULT_BLOCK_ADS=true
          - DEFAULT_STEALTH=true
      logging: *default-logging
      
volumes:
  changedetection-data:

PGID and PUID are 1000 in my use case. And TZ, for me, is set to America/New_York.

ajtatum

@girish So, I hope this answers your question, but after installing the Node Package, I allow it by adding it to my environment variables. I then monitor/manage n8n with pm2 and I call "pm2 restart n8n --update-env" and it all works.

ajtatum

@girish Sorry to revive an old topic and if there's a newer one I apologize, but I was just curious about this as I would prefer to have some sites protected by Cloudflare. I realize for certain subdomains, such as for SMTP server, that can't be proxied. But I think that's the only exception unless you're utilizing Cloudron as an LDAP source then you'd also leave "my.cloudroninstance.com" un-proxied (which isn't ideal as it leaves it vulnerable).

To give you some context, I'm asking because I have dedicated IP addresses and also use Tailscale. So, in Cloudflare I have a list of my dedicated IPs and Tailscale addresses and for some services I setup a WAF rule that simply blocks anyone from even attempting to access the site based on their IP address.

ajtatum

Sorry to be pestering, but any luck here? Would really love to use this app!

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