i don't have a project yet do not close the post

unfortunately you can't add two volumes to the same service or have a shared volume between 2 services

maybe MinIO could help?

how do i create config folder and add files in a volume

Railway doesn't have a way to directly alter the volume in-app yet, so the easiest way to do that is by using the Filebrowser template to ask a intermediary

The steps are as follows:

1. Right click on your project canvas

2. Deploy from template

3. Deploy Filebrowser

4. Delete the volume Filebrowser comes with

5. Dismount and Remount your volume to Filebrowser on path /data

6. Set the variable USE_VOLUME_ROOT (or something like that) to 1

7. Enter filebrowser using the creds in its service variable and make the changes

8. Dismount the volume from filebrowser and reconned to your application

now should i create /app folder and then subfolders as required or is there any other step

or should i directly create config and assets folder in the root

/app would be the directory for your actual app, if you were to mount the volume on /app then it'll overwrite everything within your application
there is no workaround for having both a volume /app/config and /app/assets on your service, you'll either have to use one or the other or use somehting like MinIO (if possible)

not sure how to configure MinIO

what're you deploying?

is a go app i want to deploy for my own usecase and also want to create a template

if it's your own app, why not just move config and assets to a data directory and then mount the volume to /app/data ?

or is it a premade go app?

not my own app, its an open source project

ooh okay, you can check the open source project's docs to see if it has any MinIO or S3 support, if it does then you can just use that but if not then unfortunately you'll only be able to choose one path to store in a volume, (either config or assets, can't store both since Railway doesn't support multiple volumes yet)

nope they do not have MinIO or S3 support

Ah, dang 😔

ok i have an option where i can use only one config path but still need a way do create files in the config folder path how should i do that

if it's for a template, then you might have to create the files dynamically within the start command of the application
I did something similar for the Dashy template since it doesn't populate a default config itself

If it's just for personal use then you could just pop the volume into a Filebrowser deployment (make sure USE_VOLUME_ROOT is set to 1) and populate the volume with the appropriate files then mount it back to your service under /app/config

actually i did check your dashy template but i didnt understand how does it download yml file from the url to dashy volume, do we need to have the variable name in dashy, i mean in the dashy's official repo

so here i should change the volume to /app/config right and then use the env var for the yml file url

if you deploy it you can go look at its start command, all the magic happens there

ok now i get this, thanks

my bad, previously i didnt check the stsrt command

no worries

but i need to check for go command

thanks, finally i got this working

but does the start command should be in a single line

it should but you can pretty much condense any command I can think of into a single line

Will publish a template today

For my personal usecase I need a way to download multiple files in the given path

one doubt what would be the health check path if this is given

HEALTHCHECK --timeout=10s --start-period=60s --interval=60s \
  CMD wget --spider -q http://localhost:8080/api/healthz

is it http://localhost:8080/api/healthz or /api/healthz or /healthz

one doubt what should be the health check path if this is given, i did check the docs but didnt understand

HEALTHCHECK --timeout=10s --start-period=60s --interval=60s \
  CMD wget --spider -q http://localhost:8080/api/healthz

is it http://localhost:8080/api/healthz or /api/healthz or /healthz

it depends on the application, but it's a path not a url so it wouldn't be the first one

here's the template for which i was asking for volumes
https://railway.com/template/ZHBnkG?referralCode=vishify

thanks for the magic command some how i figured it out a working start command

Awesome!! Glad you got it working

that's a cool template

but it requires more other files so i was trying to enhance the start command if you can guide me through this

/bin/sh -c 'for VAR in CONFIG_FILES; do URLS=$(eval echo \$$VAR); for URL in $(echo "$URLS" | tr "," " "); do [ -n "$URL" ] && FILE_NAME=$(basename "$URL") && DEST_PATH="/app/config/$FILE_NAME" && echo "Downloading $FILE_NAME..." && wget -O "$DEST_PATH" "$URL" && echo "$FILE_NAME has been downloaded."; done; done; for VAR in CUSTOM_CSS FAVICON LOGO; do URL=$(eval echo \$$VAR); [ -n "$URL" ] && FILE_NAME=$(basename "$URL") && DEST_PATH="/app/config/$FILE_NAME" && echo "Downloading $FILE_NAME..." && wget -O "$DEST_PATH" "$URL" && echo "$FILE_NAME has been downloaded."; done; echo "Starting Glance..." && ./glance --config /app/config/glance.yml'

I'm honestly not really that good at making such complex one line shell commands I usually just have chatgpt aid me 🤣

btw even i used chatgpt, but i'm missing the logic will the railway support downloading multiple files to the same volume

of course

railway should be able to do basically anything the command is able to do

ok will try

this works actually, now i'm able to download multiple yml files, it was my bad i missed one path

nice work :D

thanks

!s