Railway Ghost Starter

The Ghost configuration for a blog hosted on Railway with an external MySQL database.

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Configuration 📝

Railway's filesystem is ephemeral which is why any changes to the filesystem are not persisted between deploys.

Environment Variables

• CUSTOM_DOMAIN: Domain, which replaces the domain with the *.up.railway.app suffix. (optional)
• CLOUDINARY_URL: For file storage. If you do not add this, your images won't persist between deploys. (recommended)
• MYSQLHOST: Host of the MySQL database. (required)
• MYSQLPORT: Port of the MySQL database. (required)
• MYSQLUSER: User of the MySQL database. (required)
• MYSQLPASSWORD: Password of the MySQL database. (required)
• MYSQLDATABASE: Name of the MySQL database. (required)
• MYSQL_URL: Connection Url of the MySQL database. mysql://user:password@host:port/database (required)

Themes

To add a theme, first add the package as a dependency to the package.json file, then add it to the list of themes in the bin/themes.sh file.

Note: Do NOT add a theme directly using the Ghost UI, it will look like it worked but will break whenever the app is deployed again.

Deploying the site 🚀

The site will build and deploy the main branch automatically after every git push origin main via Railway.