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Deploy your Astro Site with Railway

Railway is a deployment platform built to simplify your infrastructure stack from servers to observability with a single, scalable platform.

This guide is for deploying an Astro static site to Railway using either the web interface or Railway CLI tool.

Project Configuration

Section titled “Project Configuration”

Railway’s default build system, Railpack, automatically builds your Astro project as a static site.

Deploy via the web interface

Section titled “Deploy via the web interface”

  1. Create a Railway account and sign in.

  2. From the Railway dashboard, create a new project.

  3. Select the option to deploy from a GitHub repository, and select your Astro project.

  4. Generate or add a custom domain from your project’s network settings.

Deploy via Railway CLI

Section titled “Deploy via Railway CLI”

  1. Install the Railway CLI tool.

  2. Login with the command railway login.

  3. From within your Astro project, run railway init and choose a workspace and project name.

  4. Run railway up to deploy your project on Railway.

  5. Run railway domain to generate a Railway provided service domain.

Official Resources

Section titled “Official Resources”

Railway guide to deploying an Astro app

Community Resources

Section titled “Community Resources”

How to host an Astro site on Railway

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