Deploy and Host LinkStack on Railway

About Hosting LinkStack

LinkStack is a self-hosted, privacy-focused link-in-bio platform for publishing customizable profile pages. This template deploys stable LinkStack 4.8.6 with a generated administrator and persistent SQLite-backed storage.

The public domain belongs to the linkstack service. Sign in at /login with LINKSTACK_ADMIN_EMAIL and the generated LINKSTACK_ADMIN_PASSWORD. The administrator is created before the service becomes ready, so the public setup wizard is never exposed.

Common Use Cases

Publish a personal link-in-bio page under your own domain
Host profile pages for a team, community, or organization
Manage branded links, themes, click counts, QR codes, and vCards
Replace a hosted link-page service with a self-managed instance

Dependencies for LinkStack Hosting

Deployment Dependencies

One LinkStack service with a persistent volume mounted at /htdocs
Railway-managed HTTPS and a public domain
Optional external SMTP credentials for users who do not want LinkStack's upstream built-in mail relay

Implementation Details

The template uses the official multi-architecture LinkStack 4.8.6 image pinned by immutable manifest digest. A small adapter seeds Railway's initially empty volume, runs Laravel migrations, creates the generated administrator, disables registration and debug mode, and then starts upstream Apache on port 80.

APP_KEY, LINKSTACK_ADMIN_PASSWORD, and the administrator identity variables are generated or configured in Railway. Do not change bootstrap variables until the first deployment has completed. Later changes to those variables do not reset an existing account.

All application files, SQLite data, configuration, uploads, themes, and updater backups persist on the single service volume. Keep one replica; this topology does not support horizontal scaling. Back up the volume before using LinkStack's admin-panel updater.

Why Deploy LinkStack on Railway?

Railway provides managed HTTPS, generated secrets, persistent storage with backups, Git-driven adapter builds, health checks, and redeploys while LinkStack provides a customizable open-source profile and link-management interface.