I won’t be able to elaborate much at the moment, but I just moved my project running on the latest strapi release to Railway without a problem. After I changed the Strapi env variables to match the Railway Postgres env vars, strapi started creating the tables on Railway automatically. here are my 2 files in the .config/env/production folder:
database.js
const path = require('path');
module.exports = ({ env }) => {
const client = env('DATABASE_CLIENT', 'sqlite');
const connections = {
mysql: {
connection: {
connectionString: env('DATABASE_URL'),
host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 3306),
database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
key: env('DATABASE_SSL_KEY', undefined),
cert: env('DATABASE_SSL_CERT', undefined),
ca: env('DATABASE_SSL_CA', undefined),
capath: env('DATABASE_SSL_CAPATH', undefined),
cipher: env('DATABASE_SSL_CIPHER', undefined),
rejectUnauthorized: env.bool(
'DATABASE_SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED',
true
),
},
},
pool: { min: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MIN', 2), max: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MAX', 10) },
},
mysql2: {
connection: {
host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 3306),
database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
key: env('DATABASE_SSL_KEY', undefined),
cert: env('DATABASE_SSL_CERT', undefined),
ca: env('DATABASE_SSL_CA', undefined),
capath: env('DATABASE_SSL_CAPATH', undefined),
cipher: env('DATABASE_SSL_CIPHER', undefined),
rejectUnauthorized: env.bool(
'DATABASE_SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED',
true
),
},
},
pool: { min: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MIN', 2), max: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MAX', 10) },
},
postgres: {
connection: {
connectionString: env('DATABASE_URL'),
host: env('DATABASE_HOST', 'localhost'),
port: env.int('DATABASE_PORT', 5432),
database: env('DATABASE_NAME', 'strapi'),
user: env('DATABASE_USERNAME', 'strapi'),
password: env('DATABASE_PASSWORD', 'strapi'),
ssl: env.bool('DATABASE_SSL', false) && {
key: env('DATABASE_SSL_KEY', undefined),
cert: env('DATABASE_SSL_CERT', undefined),
ca: env('DATABASE_SSL_CA', undefined),
capath: env('DATABASE_SSL_CAPATH', undefined),
cipher: env('DATABASE_SSL_CIPHER', undefined),
rejectUnauthorized: env.bool(
'DATABASE_SSL_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED',
true
),
},
schema: env('DATABASE_SCHEMA', 'public'),
},
pool: { min: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MIN', 2), max: env.int('DATABASE_POOL_MAX', 10) },
},
sqlite: {
connection: {
filename: path.join(
__dirname,
'..',
env('DATABASE_FILENAME', 'data.db')
),
},
useNullAsDefault: true,
},
};
return {
connection: {
client,
...connections[client],
acquireConnectionTimeout: env.int('DATABASE_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT', 60000),
},
};
};
server.js
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
host: env('HOST', '0.0.0.0'),
port: env.int('PORT', 1337),
app: {
keys: env.array('APP_KEYS'),
},
webhooks: {
populateRelations: env.bool('WEBHOOKS_POPULATE_RELATIONS', false),
},
});
.env file should look like this:
APP_KEYS=xxxxxxxxxx
API_TOKEN_SALT=xxxxxxxx
ADMIN_JWT_SECRET=xxxxx
TRANSFER_TOKEN_SALT=xxxxxxx
JWT_SECRET=BuI4Yxxxxxxxx
//i pasted the environment variables from railway postgres like so:
DATABASE_CLIENT=postgres
DATABASE_HOST=containers-us-west-xxxx.railway.app
DATABASE_PORT=6124
DATABASE_NAME=railway
DATABASE_USERNAME=postgres
DATABASE_PASSWORD=SDxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DATABASE_SSL=false
