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Strapi 5

Headless CMS built from Railway's starter repo with PostgreSQL.

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  • Postgrespostgres:17
  • Strapirailwayapp-templates/strapi
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What gets deployed

2 services in the environment you pick, on the private network of the project.

About this template

Builds railwayapp-templates/strapi (Strapi 5, pg) with Railpack. Secrets are generated; uploads persist on a volume.

After deploy

Open /admin on the public URL to create the first administrator.

Postgres

Image: postgres:17

  • Port 5432/tcp
  • 10 GB volume at /var/lib/postgresql/data
  • 1 vCPU · 1 GB

Strapi

Repository: railwayapp-templates/strapi@main

  • Port 1337/http
  • Public domain with TLS
  • 5 GB volume at /app/public/uploads
  • 1 vCPU · 2 GB
  • /_health

Variables

Generated secrets never leave the platform; references are resolved on the private network. Anything marked required is asked for at deploy time.

Postgres

NameValue
POSTGRES_USERpostgresSuperuser name
POSTGRES_PASSWORDgenerated (password)Generated at deploy
POSTGRES_DBstrapiDatabase created on first start
PGDATA/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
DATABASE_URLpostgresql://${{self.POSTGRES_USER}}:${{self.POSTGRES_PASSWORD}}@${{self.SKIFFLY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN}}:5432/${{self.POSTGRES_DB}}Connection string on the private network

Strapi

NameValue
DATABASE_URL${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}
APP_KEYS${{self.APP_KEY_1}},${{self.APP_KEY_2}}
APP_KEY_1generated (secret)
APP_KEY_2generated (secret)
ADMIN_JWT_SECRETgenerated (secret)
API_TOKEN_SALTgenerated (secret)
TRANSFER_TOKEN_SALTgenerated (secret)
JWT_SECRETgenerated (secret)
ENCRYPTION_KEYgenerated (secret)
URLhttps://${{self.SKIFFLY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}
HOST0.0.0.0
NODE_ENVproduction

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