Deploy and Host Paperless-ngx + Postgres/Redis on Railway

Deploy Paperless-ngx on Railway with Postgres, Redis, Tika, Gotenberg, generated admin credentials, and persistent document storage.

About Hosting Paperless-ngx + Postgres/Redis

Paperless-ngx is a document management system for scanning, organizing, OCRing, and searching personal or team documents. This template follows the official Docker Compose shape with Postgres, Redis, and optional Office/email document support through Tika and Gotenberg.

Why Deploy Paperless-ngx + Postgres/Redis on Railway

Railway provides a complete multi-service setup with private networking, generated secrets, persistent volumes, and a public Paperless URL. The template keeps the supporting services private and stores Paperless media on a Railway volume while Postgres stores document metadata.

Common Use Cases

• Personal document archive
• Small-team searchable document inbox
• OCR-backed PDF and image storage
• Office document ingestion with Tika/Gotenberg
• Evaluation environment for Paperless-ngx

Dependencies for Paperless-ngx + Postgres/Redis Hosting

Paperless depends on Postgres for metadata, Redis for scheduled/background tasks, and filesystem storage for documents. Tika and Gotenberg are included for Office and email document parsing/conversion.

Deployment Dependencies

• PAPERLESS_SECRET_KEY: long random Paperless secret
• PAPERLESS_ADMIN_USER: initial admin username
• PAPERLESS_ADMIN_PASSWORD: initial admin password
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD: generated database password
• PORT: Railway public routing port for Paperless