railway.com one click deployment problem | Backend started at 8080

[tamilarasi-tech]

After deploying using the Railway template, everything works as expected. However, the backend service is mapped to the default port 8080, while the application requires PORT=3000.

Expected Behavior:
The backend should automatically map to PORT=3000 to match the expected configuration.

Actual Behavior:
The backend is mapped to PORT=8080, causing misconfiguration issues.

Suggested Fix:
Modify the template's environment variable PORT to 3000 to ensure correct deployment.

[Nest] 175 - 02/27/2025, 6:47:23 PM LOG 🚀 Backend is running on: http://localhost:8080/

[egelhaus]

We do not offer support for Railway, as it isn't listed in the Documentation or anything, that template is just there to get the SaaS Version running, not for OSS Deployers, if you want to use Railway you're going to have to do it yourself with no support.

[tamilarasi-tech]

I'm happy to take issue #340 and work on the documentation and code changes.

[egelhaus]

Hey, if you could do that, that would be great, I'm happy to assign this to you.
@tamilarasi-tech

[egelhaus]

You need to comment once on the Parent Issue to let me assign it to you.

[Azadbangladeshi-com]

Uploaded_CV_MD_SOHEL_RANA.pdf

[chad-syntax]

Hey folks, I was actually working on this off-and-on the past couple of weeks, I was able to fix the issues and have it deployed on my own railway (https://postiz.chadsyntax.com/). I opened this PR #634, happy to work together to get it merged.

[tamilarasi-tech]

Happy to work together @chad-syntax . Working on the docs for Railway One Click Deployment.

[chad-syntax]

Happy to work together @chad-syntax . Working on the docs for Railway One Click Deployment.

Great, I assume that means we need to add some info the this repo's README and submit another PR to https://github.com/gitroomhq/postiz-docs?

I'm thinking we can either just say: "here's the railway template, just click this link and it will fill in all the settings and deploy right away"

OR "here are the full steps on how to set it up from scratch" (still pretty straightforward)

[leemuljadi]

Hey guys @tamilarasi-tech @chad-syntax , how is it going with the railway one click deployment? I tried deploying using this template below but cant even sign up? how did you guys get around it?

and got this error:

[chad-syntax]

I honestly do not know, in another thread I was asked if we could change the template so I wasn't the referrer, as Railway gives monetary kickbacks to the template owner. So that requires the postiz owners to make the template.

I was able to get it running on my own by standing up a service from the docker image, a psql, and a redis using the environment variables I list here in the docs repo.

(Though I'm still not 100% sure if the PORT=5000 env var being present helps or hurts due to some other port related changes recently, if it fails to deploy you could remove PORT and set the service port manually in the railway config.)