---
title: "Deploy Pixelfed"
description: "Explore + Share beautiful photos and videos on the Fediverse"
category: "Blogs"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/OZSdEw
---

# Deploy Pixelfed

Explore + Share beautiful photos and videos on the Fediverse

**[Deploy Pixelfed on Railway](https://railway.com/template/OZSdEw)**

- **Creator:** Evan Boehs's Projects
- **Category:** Blogs
- **Total deploys:** 29

## Template content

### Pixelfed https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Pixelfed_logo_multicolor_%28September_2018%29.svg/1200px-Pixelfed_logo_multicolor_%28September_2018%29.svg.png

- **Image:** quay.io/zknt/pixelfed
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c "echo \"ServerName 0.0.0.0\" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && sleep 3 && /entrypoint.sh"`
- **Public domain:** Yes

### MySQL https://devicons.railway.app/i/mysql.svg

- **Image:** mysql
- **Start command:** `docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld --innodb-use-native-aio=0 --disable-log-bin --performance_schema=0`

### Redis https://devicons.railway.app/i/redis.svg

- **Image:** bitnami/redis

## Documentation

A fresh take on photo sharing. Get inspired with beautiful photos captured by people around the world.

- Ad-free and privacy friendly
- Open source and decentralized
- Chronological

## What do you get here?

This configuration is pretty opinionated. Its supposed to be good to get you started, but you'll certainly want to change it — you can see the variables [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20230517011052/https://docs.pixelfed.org/technical-documentation/config). 

Specifically, you may want to:

- disable ActivityPub if you want a local only community
- or turn off signups by setting `OPEN_REGISTRATION` to false.
- change `FILESYSTEM_DRIVER` to be S3 (see further configuration) to avoid filling up your railway disk too fast

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