Deploy and Host Gotify on Railway

Gotify is a simple, self-hosted server for sending and receiving push notifications. Applications, scripts and CI jobs post messages over a REST API using an app token, and clients receive them in real time over WebSocket, through the web UI, the Android app or any tool that speaks its API.

About Hosting Gotify

This template deploys Gotify v3.1.1, the first major release with environment-only configuration, as a single service with a SQLite database on a Railway volume at /app/data. The admin account is admin with a password generated at deploy time, registration is disabled, and session cookies are marked secure because Railway serves it over HTTPS. Gotify is light, so the Hobby plan is enough and the volume only grows with stored messages and images. Log in, create an application to get a sending token, then post messages from anywhere with curl or any HTTP client.

Common Use Cases

Push alerts from cron jobs, backups, CI pipelines and monitoring to your phone
A self-hosted replacement for Pushover-style notification services
Real-time notifications for home-lab and self-hosted apps that support Gotify

Dependencies for Gotify Hosting

gotify/server:3.1.1 (official image)
A Railway volume at /app/data for the SQLite database and uploads

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Service	Image	Networking	Storage
gotify	`gotify/server:3.1.1`	public domain on 80; private IPv4/IPv6	volume at `/app/data`

Send a message with an application token created in the web UI:

curl "https:///message" -H "X-Gotify-Key: " \
  -F "title=Deploy finished" -F "message=main is live" -F "priority=5"

Variable	Default	Purpose
`GOTIFY_DEFAULTUSER_NAME` / `GOTIFY_DEFAULTUSER_PASS`	`admin` / generated	First admin account
`GOTIFY_REGISTRATION`	`false`	Keep public sign-up closed
`GOTIFY_SERVER_SECURECOOKIE`	`true`	Secure session cookies behind HTTPS

Notes:

Gotify 3 no longer reads config.yml; every setting is a GOTIFY_* environment variable. See the upstream gotify-server.env.example for the full list, including OIDC login.
Application tokens are only shown once, when they are created or rotated.
To use Postgres instead of SQLite, set GOTIFY_DATABASE_DIALECT=postgres and GOTIFY_DATABASE_CONNECTION.

This is a community-maintained deployment package and does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by the Gotify project or its maintainers.

Why Deploy Gotify 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 Gotify 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.