---
title: "Deploy RSSBox | Feed Translator With Working Redis and a Private Admin"
description: "RSSBox on Railway: translated feeds, a Redis that pulls, private admin"
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/rssbox-or-feed-translator-with-working-r
---

# Deploy RSSBox | Feed Translator With Working Redis and a Private Admin

RSSBox on Railway: translated feeds, a Redis that pulls, private admin

**[Deploy RSSBox | Feed Translator With Working Redis and a Private Admin on Railway](https://railway.com/template/rssbox-or-feed-translator-with-working-r)**

- **Creator:** Pavel Volkov's Projects
- **Category:** AI/ML

## Template content

### RSSBox

- **Source:** https://github.com/ak40u/rssbox-railway-starter
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Redis

- **Image:** redis:8.6.5-alpine
- **Start command:** `/bin/sh -c 'redis-server --requirepass "$REDIS_PASSWORD" --appendonly yes --bind 0.0.0.0 :: --protected-mode no'`

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host RSSBox on Railway

RSSBox, formerly RSS Translator, takes any RSS or JSON feed and gives you back a
better one: translated titles or content, AI summaries, full-text fetching,
keyword and AI filtering, and several feeds merged into one. You subscribe to the
result in the reader you already use.

## About Hosting RSSBox

RSSBox is a Django application with a background cron worker, a SQLite database
and Redis as its cache. Hosting it means keeping three things right: the database
and the translation cache have to live on a volume or every redeploy throws away
your feeds and re-pays for every translation; Redis has to actually start,
because the app blocks on it at boot; and the instance has to know its own public
URL, since that URL is baked into every feed link it hands to subscribers. It
also ships a default administrator account, which on a public domain is an open
door unless the password is replaced.

## Common Use Cases

- Read foreign-language feeds in your own language, with the original kept beside the translation
- Turn noisy high-volume feeds into a short daily digest with AI summaries
- Filter a feed down to the keywords or topics you actually care about
- Merge a dozen sources into one feed for a reader, a Telegram channel or a newsletter

## Dependencies for RSSBox Hosting

- Redis, used as the cache and as the boot gate for the application
- A volume for `/app/data`, which holds the SQLite database and the translation cache
- A translation engine account (OpenAI or DeepL), configured inside the app after the first login

### Deployment Dependencies

- [RSSBox source](https://github.com/versun/RSSBox) and its [documentation](https://rssbox.app/en)
- [This template's repository](https://github.com/ak40u/rssbox-railway-starter)

### Implementation Details

The published RSSBox template in the catalog sits at 11% health. Its Redis is
`bitnami/redis:7.2.5`, and Bitnami closed the public tag catalog, so that image
can no longer be pulled: the Redis service fails and the app waits for a cache
that never answers. This template fixes that and three more things:

- **Redis** is `redis:8.6.5-alpine`, pinned, password-protected, with an appendonly volume.
- **The admin password is generated per deployment.** Upstream creates `admin` with
  the password `rssbox`, printed in its own source. Here `ADMIN_PASSWORD` is a
  generated variable and it is applied on every boot before the web server takes traffic.
- **`SECRET_KEY` is a stable generated variable.** Without it Django mints a new key
  at every start, which silently invalidates sessions and CSRF tokens on each redeploy.
- **`SITE_URL` follows the Railway domain** instead of the `https://example.com`
  the published template ships, so the feed links your subscribers get point at your instance.

First login is `admin` with the value of `ADMIN_PASSWORD` from the service variables.

## Why Deploy RSSBox 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 RSSBox 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.


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