Deploy and Host Ghost CMS on Railway

Run Ghost 6 on Railway with MySQL, persistent content storage, private networking, and a Railway public domain.

About Hosting Ghost CMS

Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership sites. This template provisions a production Ghost service from the official ghost:6-alpine image, pairs it with Railway MySQL over private networking, and mounts a persistent volume at /var/lib/ghost/content so themes and uploads survive deploys. Ghost waits for MySQL before boot to avoid first-boot migration races.

Common Use Cases

Self-hosted blogs and publications
Newsletters and membership sites
Headless CMS via Ghost Content API
Marketing sites with Ghost themes

Dependencies for Ghost CMS Hosting

Railway MySQL (included) for posts, members, and settings
Ghost content volume for themes, images, and settings
Optional SMTP provider for member auth and newsletters

Deployment Dependencies

Ghost Docker image: ghost:6-alpine
MySQL connection variables: MYSQLHOST, MYSQLPORT, MYSQLDATABASE, MYSQLUSER, MYSQLPASSWORD
Public URL: https://${{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}
Volume mount: /var/lib/ghost/content

Why Deploy Ghost CMS on Railway?

Railway hosts Ghost, MySQL, volumes, and HTTPS in one project so you can publish without managing servers, TLS, or database networking yourself.