Deploy and Host FreshRSS on Railway

FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS feed aggregator for collecting and reading news from many websites in one place. It is lightweight, multi-user, customizable, and supports RSS and Atom feeds, filtering, search, statistics, OPML import and export, APIs for reader clients, WebSub, and optional web scraping.

About Hosting FreshRSS

Hosting FreshRSS on Railway uses one public container and one persistent volume. The template pins the LinuxServer.io FreshRSS 1.29.1 image, exposes its documented HTTP port 80 through a Railway HTTPS domain, and mounts /config for the installation, users, feeds, database, logs, keys, and extensions. Railway checks / for HTTP readiness and restarts failed deployments. On first visit, complete FreshRSS's setup wizard and choose the database configuration that fits your instance; SQLite is suitable for a single-service deployment. Keep one replica for this volume-backed application and maintain independent backups.

Common Use Cases

Read and organize personal RSS and Atom subscriptions from a private web interface
Provide a shared, multi-user feed reader for a household, team, or small community
Connect mobile and desktop RSS clients through FreshRSS's supported APIs

Dependencies for FreshRSS Hosting

The immutable linuxserver/freshrss:1.29.1 container image used by the FreshRSS 1.29.1 release package
One Railway persistent volume mounted at /config
One Railway-generated HTTPS service domain targeting container port 80
No external database, queue, object store, or third-party credential is required by this single-service graph

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

The FreshRSS service uses the digest-pinned LinuxServer.io image, the safe PUID=1000, PGID=1000, and TZ=Etc/UTC defaults, and a PORT=80 Railway routing hint. Its /config volume is mounted at container startup and must not be shared with replicas. The startup command writes an IPv4 resolver configuration before invoking the image's original /init process; this avoids the pinned image's nginx resolver parser rejecting Railway's IPv6-only nameserver representation while preserving the upstream container entrypoint.

After deployment, open the generated Railway domain and finish the FreshRSS web setup. The first administrator credentials and database choices are created by that wizard; this template does not copy or generate an application password.

Why Deploy FreshRSS 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 FreshRSS 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.