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We'd like to update the Neo4j documentation a little.
This is a small reworking of @osmanis PR #2631
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Looks great.

This binds two ports (`7474` and `7687`) for HTTP and Bolt access to the Neo4j API. A volume is bound to `/data` to allow the database to be persisted outside the container.

By default, this requires you to login with `neo4j/neo4j` and change the password. You can, for development purposes, disable authentication by passing `--env=NEO4J_AUTH=none` to docker run.
Once running, you can use the Neo4j Aura console which includes graph tools for visualizations, data exploration, and monitoring for free. No subscription is required. Simply create a self-managed instance and connect to http://localhost:7474. Alternatively, you can use the Neo4j Browser, a web-based user interface for interacting with Neo4j that is included with the Neo4j installation. To access the Neo4j Browser, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:7474.
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Is it intentional that both URLs in this paragraph are to the same place? The text seems to describe two different things, but maybe I'm just misreading it? 🤔

@yosifkit yosifkit mentioned this pull request Oct 22, 2025
jennyowen and others added 2 commits October 23, 2025 13:49
Co-authored-by: Tianon Gravi <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Tianon Gravi <[email protected]>
This binds two ports (`7474` and `7687`) for HTTP and Bolt access to the Neo4j API. A volume is bound to `/data` to allow the database to be persisted outside the container.

By default, this requires you to login with `neo4j/neo4j` and change the password. You can, for development purposes, disable authentication by passing `--env=NEO4J_AUTH=none` to docker run.
Once running, you can use the Neo4j Aura console which includes graph tools for visualizations, data exploration, and monitoring for free. No subscription is required. Simply create a self-managed instance and connect to http://localhost:7474. Alternatively, you can use the Neo4j Browser, a web-based user interface for interacting with Neo4j that is included with the Neo4j installation. To access the Neo4j Browser, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:7474.
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Once running, you can use the Neo4j Aura console which includes graph tools for visualizations, data exploration, and monitoring for free. No subscription is required. Simply create a self-managed instance and connect to http://localhost:7474.

Alternatively, you can use the Neo4j Browser, a web-based user interface for interacting with Neo4j that is included with the Neo4j installation. To access the Neo4j Browser, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:7474.

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Do you mean maybe "connect it to http://localhost:7474" ? (to make it clear you mean the instance in Aura, not the local user as in the next bit)

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