---
title: "Deploy FileRise"
description: "Secure FileRise with persistent storage, closed setup, and generated keys."
category: "Storage"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/filerise-on-railway
---

# Deploy FileRise

Secure FileRise with persistent storage, closed setup, and generated keys.

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

- **Creator:** l4time's Projects
- **Category:** Storage

## Template content

### filerise

- **Source:** https://github.com/l4time/railway-filerise-template
- **Health check:** /api/auth/checkAuth.php
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host FileRise on Railway

## About Hosting FileRise

FileRise is a lightweight self-hosted file manager with browser uploads,
folder permissions, WebDAV, and encrypted folders. This template deploys
FileRise `v3.26.1` as one digest-pinned service with one persistent `/data`
volume.

## Common Use Cases

- A small personal or team file portal.
- Browser-based file upload and download.
- A narrowly permissioned WebDAV endpoint.
- Encrypted folders whose recovery key is retained separately.

## Dependencies for FileRise Hosting

### Deployment Dependencies

The template creates one service, one public HTTP domain, and one volume at
`/data`. Railway generates first-boot admin and WebDAV passwords, a token key,
and an encryption master key. A pre-bind, per-file atomic, fail-closed
bootstrap creates both users before the service becomes public; WebDAV access
remains disabled until an administrator enables it and grants the dedicated
non-admin account a folder ACL. After first boot, passwords are changed in the
FileRise UI; changing Railway bootstrap variables does not update persisted
user hashes.

Uploads, users, and metadata persist on `/data`. Serverless is disabled and
one replica is required. ClamAV, OnlyOffice, Pro features, database, cache,
Bucket, worker, and cron services are not included.

## Why Deploy FileRise on Railway?

Railway provides the build, TLS domain, generated secrets, health checks,
restart policy, metrics, and volume. The wrapper closes FileRise's first-admin
race, maps all required writable paths into one volume, and removes source
secret names from the long-running process environment.

Build and image-pull time varies. R5 reached terminal success within an
approximately eight-minute complete proof lifetime and passed the configured
60-second health window after container start; neither observation is a
precise build-time promise.

Back up `/data` and the encryption master key separately. A wrong key can
produce a zero-byte response, so restore checks must use byte counts and
checksums. This independent community template supports its wrapper and
documented Railway contract; upstream FileRise features and Railway platform
incidents remain with their respective owners.


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