Railway•2w ago

Deploying Astro on Railway

I am trying to deploy an Astro project on Railway and its not working. I have the PORT env variable set to 4321 and I am using the Node adapter. However when I visit the link generated by Railway it shows me this. Would appreciate any help.

Solution:

what vin said, plus you will need - ```js server: { host: '0.0.0.0' },...

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Percy•2w ago

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Brody•2w ago

what is your start script?

tensor8045•2w ago

I do not have one. Isn't Railway supposed to auto detect and take care of it?

Brody•2w ago

in your package.json, do you not have a start script?

tensor8045•2w ago

Just the usual "scripts": { "dev": "astro dev", "start": "astro dev", "build": "astro build", "preview": "astro preview", "astro": "astro" },

Brody•2w ago

then you are trying to run a dev server on railway, you dont need me to tell you thats not a good idea send me your astro.config.mjs please

tensor8045•2w ago

Sure.

import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import tailwind from "@astrojs/tailwind";

import node from "@astrojs/node";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  output: "server",
  integrations: [tailwind()],
  adapter: node({
    mode: "standalone"
  })
});

import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import tailwind from "@astrojs/tailwind";

import node from "@astrojs/node";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  output: "server",
  integrations: [tailwind()],
  adapter: node({
    mode: "standalone"
  })
});

MantisInABox•2w ago

Start should be node ./dist/server/entry.mjs

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Brody•2w ago

what vin said, plus you will need -

server: {
  host: '0.0.0.0'
},

server: {
  host: '0.0.0.0'
},

in defineConfig

MantisInABox•2w ago

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import node from "@astrojs/node";

import tailwind from "@astrojs/tailwind";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  output: "server",
  adapter: node({
    mode: "standalone"
  }),
  server: {
    host: '0.0.0.0'
  },
  integrations: [tailwind({
    applyBaseStyles: false,
  })]
});

import { defineConfig } from 'astro/config';
import node from "@astrojs/node";

import tailwind from "@astrojs/tailwind";

// https://astro.build/config
export default defineConfig({
  output: "server",
  adapter: node({
    mode: "standalone"
  }),
  server: {
    host: '0.0.0.0'
  },
  integrations: [tailwind({
    applyBaseStyles: false,
  })]
});

tensor8045•2w ago

Gotcha. Is this because I am using the Node adapter or either way?

Brody•2w ago

this type of config applies to any web service you deploy to railway, they need to be listening on either 0.0.0.0 or :: and the PORT environment variable, this is just the config required to have the node adapter listen on the correct host and port

tensor8045•2w ago

First of all appreciate the answer. I was able to make it work. What I meant was if I wasn't using the Node adapter in Astro, would I still need to use node ./dist/server/entry.mjs and server: { host: '0.0.0.0' } Nextjs for example just runs of the bat without any edits on the package.json and stuff Or would the start command change in Astro without the Node adapter

Brody•2w ago

if you weren't using the node adapter you would be running a development server, yes you could configure the development server to work correctly, but its still a development server. next apps do come with a default start script as next start and that alone is sufficient to run a production server for the most part.

tensor8045•2w ago

Makes sense. I guess without the Node adapter there would be no server running in Astro, just a bunch of static files?

MantisInABox•2w ago

correct

Brody•2w ago

there would be a server running, but without the node ./dist/server/entry.mjs as your start script you would be running a dev server instead as the original start script is astro dev

tensor8045•2w ago

Gotcha gotcha. Appreciate the help guys.

Brody•2w ago

no problem!

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