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📚 Add documentation for some more environment variables

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@ -6,6 +6,18 @@ It is possible to change some of the n8n defaults via special environment variab
The ones that currently exist are:
## Execution Data Manual Runs
n8n creates a random encryption key automatically on the first launch and saves
it in the `~/.n8n` folder. That key gets used to encrypt the credentials before
they get saved to the database. It is also possible to overwrite that key and
set it via an environment variable.
```bash
export N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY="<SOME RANDOM STRING>"
```
## Execution Data Manual Runs
Normally executions which got started via the Editor UI will not be saved as
@ -51,6 +63,17 @@ export NODES_EXCLUDE="[\"n8n-nodes-base.executeCommand\",\"n8n-nodes-base.writeB
```
## Custom Nodes Location
Every user can add custom nodes that get loaded by n8n on startup. The default
location is in the subfolder `.n8n/custom` of the user which started n8n.
Additional folders can be defined via an environment variable.
```bash
export N8N_CUSTOM_EXTENSIONS="/home/jim/n8n/custom-nodes;/data/n8n/nodes"
```
## Timezone
The timezone is set by default to "America/New_York". It gets for example used by the
@ -64,3 +87,15 @@ export GENERIC_TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
You can find the name of your timezone here:
[https://momentjs.com/timezone/](https://momentjs.com/timezone/)
## User Folder
User-specific data like the encryption key, SQLite database file, and
the ID of the tunnel (if used) get by default saved in the subfolder
`.n8n` of the user which started n8n. It is possible to overwrite the
user-folder via an environment variable.
```bash
export N8N_USER_FOLDER="/home/jim/n8n"
```