---
title: "Deploy HortusFox"
description: "Collaborative plant care, inventory, and task tracking"
category: "Other"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/hortusfox
---

# Deploy HortusFox

Collaborative plant care, inventory, and task tracking

**[Deploy HortusFox on Railway](https://railway.com/template/hortusfox)**

- **Creator:** Tom
- **Category:** Other

## Template content

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- **Source:** https://github.com/monotykamary/railway-template-hortusfox
- **Health check:** /auth
- **Public domain:** Yes

### mariadb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/monotykamary/railway-template-hortusfox/fea6fa6ab9b82063be1b6203ec41fc81308acfc3/assets/hortusfox-icon.png

- **Source:** https://github.com/monotykamary/railway-template-hortusfox

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host HortusFox on Railway

## About Hosting HortusFox

HortusFox is a collaborative plant-management application for locations, plants, photos, care tasks, inventory, calendar entries, chat, history, and API integrations. This template deploys stable version 5.9 with MariaDB and generated administrator credentials.

Sign in using `APP_ADMIN_EMAIL` and the generated `APP_ADMIN_PASSWORD` service variable.

## Common Use Cases

- Track indoor, outdoor, office, or community plants by location
- Record care tasks, notes, photos, history, and inventory
- Share a plant workspace with multiple trusted users

## Dependencies for HortusFox Hosting

### Deployment Dependencies

- HortusFox web service with a daily-backed-up data volume
- Private MariaDB 11.8.5 with a daily-backed-up database volume
- Optional external SMTP and plant information providers

### Implementation Details

The upstream image performs first-run migrations and administrator creation. The Railway adapter preserves upstream's six writable directories under one `/data` volume before delegating to the original entrypoint. MariaDB is available only over Railway private networking. Debug mode and dependency updates at startup are disabled.

The template is a single web replica. Do not scale horizontally until shared files and sessions are explicitly validated.

## Why Deploy HortusFox on Railway?

Railway supplies managed HTTPS, generated credentials, private database networking, persistent volumes with backups, health checks, and repeatable deployments for a complete plant-management workspace.


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