Railway occasionally fails to detect open ports
I've recently created the
SurrealDB template for Railway, and upon further experimentation I've found that making changes to the original github repository, or publishing a new docker image, sometimes causes Railway to not handle incoming requests via any networking solution (railway TCP proxy, HTTPS cloudflare proxying). The issue seems to resolve itself after detaching the database volume, and creating a completely new service for the database, then reattaching the volume (but this method is not a guaranteed fix). I'm building an app that will be shipped to production very soon and critical outages like this cannot happen every time there is a SurrealDB update. I've tested everything on my local machine with no issues, so I'm starting to wonder whether it's a server-side latency issue on Railway?46 Replies
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that template is actually a work in progress last I checked
oh you're the creator, I didn't realize with the difference pfp photos
I had a look at your start.sh script, and environment variables, I don't think there is anything you are doing that can't be done with the official surrealdb image. I'll try my hand at creating a template for it, and if successful I would have no problem handing the template over to you so that you can publish and collect it's kickback
thanks
@Nafi - here is the completed (but unpublished) template https://railway.app/template/9zvHt-
unpublish your current template
delete your template
fork my template https://railway.app/button?code=9zvHt-
publish your fork of my template
profit?
looks great man! glad you added --no-banner as well as thinking of adding that to the original
Btw @Brody where in the docs did you find the start environment variables?
the help flag prints them.
some things I left as a flag, like enabling auth, don't think too many people want no auth on their database so putting it as a flag kinda hides it away a tiny bit to help prevent accidental changes to auth
yeah formatting was very messed up on that, railway trims whitespace from the log lines
@Brody could you send me the markdown you used for the template?
I mean sure, but why? the markdown is on the template I gave you?
I really hope you aren't trying to manually update your template?
when I said I'd hand over the template, I really meant it, fork my template and publish it
unless you have tried that and the markdown is missing?
I forked it, but all of the published markdown is removed
I cant copy raw markdown cause its rendered on your template
gotcha, use this https://bookmarklets.up.railway.app/template-clone/
I know for a fact this copy's the overview markdown
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ill try diff browser
are you trying to clone to your team account?
that's very bugged
thats probably why ill switch
still no, tried different browser and hobby workspace
ill install something that isnt ungoogle chromium or opera gx 💀
neither should be a problem, I used that bookmarklet last night to clone your template
got you a train btw
oh awesome, thank you so much!
when you use the bookmarklet, make sure you have swapped to your hobby account, and not selected on the team plan
yeah I did
im gonna try on firefox
I'm away from the computer right now so I can't confirm that my bookmarklet still works
its cool dw maybe u can just copy pasta the markdown once ur home?
I can try and just take it from the surreal github its just uve already done it is all
thanks
and then you can just copy the image address for the template logo and it's description
yeye
thanks brodie really appreciate this
no problem, templates are my jam
is Brody your real name?
yes lol
thats so cool dude
thank you!
woohoo
hopefully when railway starts working on improving the template experience they will add an option for us users to transfer them to each other, right now it's either fork/clone or ask the team to manually transfer
I think the healthcheck was the reason it wasnt detecting open ports
yeah that would be awesome
nope, nothing like that
what do you think?
not sure, but you had the tcp proxy enabled? it uses http
didnt change anything. I tried both
did you have a PORT variable when you had it on http mode?
to be fair, the problem only seemed to arise after I added the
DB_ prefix to the ENV vars
so that may just be it
when you suggested that did you just mean credentials?
DB_USER and DB_PASSnot sure what it was, but rest assured you are now the owner of a fully feature complete template
when I suggested those variables I had not at all looked into the surrealdb docs, so I did suggest the wrong variables, but that wouldn't have caused issues with ports
yeah fair enough
yeah, what does the status on the domain say?
it was because I didn't add https that time, it works fine
https:// prefixah gotcha
@Melissa this thread is a case of doing a manual transfer (with some difficulties), and ive made templates for other users in the past (where they forked my template) a simple native transfer dialog would be awsome!