Make sure the port your app is listening to is the same port your URL is mapped to. You can change this in the networking section of your service settings.

Also, make sure to listen on 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost.

its crashing beacuse it is listening to process.env.PORT.

Check the Deployment Logs in Railway and verify your app binds to 0.0.0.0 with a valid /health route.

Logs:

INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8080 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Starting Container

INFO: 100.64.0.2:52405 - "GET /health HTTP/1.1" 200 OK

I'm timing out when I try to hit

     https://eleanorapi-production.up.railway.app/health

     https://eleanorapi-production.up.railway.app:8080/health

     https://100.64.0.2:8080/health

what should I try next?

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Logs:

INFO: Uvicorn running on http://0.0.0.0:8080 (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Starting Container

INFO: 100.64.0.2:52405 - "GET /health HTTP/1.1" 200 OK

I'm timing out when I try to hit

 https://eleanorapi-production.up.railway.app/health

 https://eleanorapi-production.up.railway.app:8080/health

 https://100.64.0.2:8080/health

what should I try next?

Cheers

I assume INFO: 100.64.0.2:52405 - "GET /health HTTP/1.1" 200 OK is coming from your codebase.

Something I'd try is to make Uvicorn listen on a different arbitrary port (eg, 3000) and map the URL to that as well. See if that works.

no, INFO: 100.64.0.2:52405 - "GET /health HTTP/1.1" 200 OK is from Railway. I assume it is the post-deployment health check

My application does not set or otherwise address the port at all. It is a default FastAPI server

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app is running correctly inside the container, but Railway likely is not exposing the service publicly on the correct port — make sure the Railway service “Public Networking” is enabled and the exposed port is set to 8080.

100.64.x.x is an internal private Railway IP

Public Networking

Access your application over HTTP with the following domains

eleanorapi.up.railway.app # (I changed the name)

Port 8000

These fail to connect

https://eleanorapi.up.railway.app/health - 502

https://eleanorapi.up.railway.app:8000/health - eleanorapi.up.railway.app took too long to respond

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You need to change your URL to listen to port 8080 instead of 8000.

Change the Railway public port to 8080 (or change your app to run on 8000 using process.env.PORT) and redeploy the service.pp is listening on port 8080, but Railway Public Networking is configured for port 8000