---
title: "Deploy drupal-railway-template"
description: "Production-ready Drupal 11 + PostgreSQL on Railway"
category: "CMS"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/drupal-railway-template
---

# Deploy drupal-railway-template

Production-ready Drupal 11 + PostgreSQL on Railway

**[Deploy drupal-railway-template on Railway](https://railway.com/template/drupal-railway-template)**

- **Creator:** Uttkarsh's Projects
- **Category:** CMS

## Template content

### web

- **Source:** https://github.com/uttkarsh-26/drupal-railway
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:18

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Drupal 11 on Railway

Deploy a production-ready Drupal 11 site backed by PostgreSQL in one click. This template pins a known-good dependency graph (Drupal core, PHP 8.5, Apache) and wires persistent storage, a readiness health check, and automatic first-boot installation — no local tooling required.

## About Hosting

Everything runs on Railway's managed platform:

- **Web service** — Apache + PHP 8.5 (Drupal 11.4.x), built from the public `uttkarsh-26/drupal-railway` repo. Apache adapts to Railway's dynamic `PORT`, and a `/health.php` endpoint drives the platform health check.
- **PostgreSQL 18** — managed database service with SSL, auto-provisioned. Drupal is wired to it through `${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}`.
- **Persistent volume** — a 500 MB volume mounts at `/data`: uploaded files, the hash salt, and configuration exports survive redeploys. No volume, no persistence — files reset on every deploy.
- **Automatic install** — on first boot the entrypoint runs `drush site:install` (idempotent, guarded by a PostgreSQL advisory lock) with the variables you provide, then hands off to Apache.

## Why Deploy

- **Reproducible** — the dependency graph is pinned and verified by CI on every commit; Composer issues fail the build instead of shipping.
- **Battle-tested on Railway** — this template ships with fixes for the two platform-specific pitfalls that break naive Drupal containers: Railway's builder rejects Dockerfile `VOLUME` instructions (volumes are attached natively instead), and the Drupal base image's multi-MPM state is resolved at boot so Apache always starts clean.
- **Secret-safe** — the admin password is a required deploy-time variable (never baked into the image); private state (hash salt, config exports) lives under `/data`, outside the web root.
- **Zero local setup** — no Drush, no Composer, no PHP install on your machine. Point, click, deploy.

## Common Use Cases

- Launch a new Drupal site (blog, corporate site, intranet, community portal) without managing servers.
- Preview a Drupal 11 codebase or contribute upstream: the repo's `test.sh` gives you a full local smoke test (install, health, drush, cron, persistence) in minutes.
- Use as a starting point for custom Drupal work — `composer require` your modules in CI, keep the same storage and health-check guarantees.

## Dependencies for

- Drupal core 11.4.x (latest patch, updated weekly by Dependabot)
- PostgreSQL 18 (Railway managed service)
- PHP 8.5 + Apache on Debian Bookworm (official Drupal image)
- Composer-managed contrib dependencies, pinned and audited

### Deployment Dependencies

- `DATABASE_URL` — provided automatically via `${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}`
- `DRUPAL_ACCOUNT_PASS` — required; choose a strong admin password at deploy time
- `DRUPAL_ACCOUNT_NAME` (default `admin`) and `DRUPAL_ACCOUNT_MAIL` — the initial admin account
- `DRUPAL_SITE_NAME` — site title used by the installer
- `/data` volume on the web service for persistent files and private state


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