Deploy and Host Docmost on Railway

Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation platform for teams. It combines real-time editing, spaces, granular permissions, comments, page history, search, diagrams, and file attachments in a self-hosted alternative to Confluence and Notion.

About Hosting Docmost

This Railway template runs Docmost 0.95.0 with PostgreSQL 18 and Redis 8. Docmost is the only public service; database and cache traffic stays on Railway's private network. Persistent volumes retain uploaded files, database records, and Redis AOF state. Startup migrations run inside Docmost, and /api/health checks both PostgreSQL and Redis before Railway marks the application healthy. All required secrets and connection strings are generated or referenced automatically.

Common Use Cases

• Maintain an internal product or operations knowledge base.
• Collaborate on technical documentation and project plans.
• Organize team knowledge with spaces, permissions, comments, and history.

Dependencies for Docmost Hosting

• PostgreSQL 18 for workspaces, users, pages, permissions, history, and metadata.
• Redis 8 for queues, caching, WebSocket coordination, and background jobs.
• Persistent Railway volumes for application files, database state, and Redis AOF data.

Deployment Dependencies

• Docmost installation documentation
• Docmost source and release history
• Current upstream Compose topology

Implementation Details

Docmost runs from an immutable 0.95.0 image digest. PostgreSQL and Redis also use digest-pinned images. The application mounts /app/data/storage, PostgreSQL mounts /var/lib/postgresql, and Redis mounts /data. Redis starts with append-only persistence and the upstream noeviction policy. No deployer-provided variables are required.

Why Deploy Docmost on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Docmost on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.