Deploy a PHP site to Railway

PHP is a framework for building websites. Railway is a platform for hosting web apps. Learn how to host a PHP site on Railway.

Prerequisites

• Railway Account
• PHP

Create Home Page

On your local machine, create a index.php file.

<h1>Hello, World</h1>

Test your site.

php -S localhost:8000

Deploy to Railway

Install the Railway CLI tool:

npm i -g @railway/cli

Login to your Railway account:

railway login --browserless

Create a new Railway project:

railway init

Link your folder to your Railway project.

railway link

Deploy your app.

railway up --detach

When the site is ready, generate a domain.

railway domain

Update Site and Redeploy

Update home page, index.php:

<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>Happy to be here</p>

Test update locally:

php -S localhost:8000

Redeploy to Railway.

railway up --detach

Comments

[Boopathi]

This is a clear and concise guide to deploying a PHP site on Railway! I'm impressed with how easy it is to get started, thanks for sharing.

[Mark Munyaka]

Thanks for that. I try to keep things simple.