Ghost on Railway

This template deploys a self-hosted version of Ghost on Railway. Internally it uses a MySQL database to store the data. For a step-by-step guide, see this post, or click the button below.

✨ Features

• Ghost
• MySQL

💁‍♀️ How to use

• Click the Railway button 👆
• Add the environment variables
  • If you do not add the CLOUDINARY_URL environment variable, your images/files will not be persisted between deploys.
  • Add the MAILGUN_SMTP_LOGIN and MAILGUN_SMTP_PASSWORD variables if you want to invite users to your admin panel or send emails to your subscribers when you publish a new post.

📝 Notes

• Railway's filesystem is ephemeral which is why any changes to the filesystem are not persisted between deploys. This is why, this example uses Cloudinary for storage.
• The above limitation also affects the way themes work with Ghost, we use the bin/themes.sh script to copy over the themes every time you deploy. That way, the theme is always present.
  • To add a theme, first add the package as a dependency to the package.json file and then add it to the list of themes in the bin/themes.sh file.
  • Do NOT add a theme directly using the Ghost UI, it will look like it worked but will break whenever you deploy your app again.