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You can SSH in and run a simple ls command!

^^ https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli#ssh

You absolutely can see what’s on the filesystem, but not in the same “index of /” way Apache/NGINX sometimes give you for free.

On Railway there are two different things:

-what your app serves over HTTP

-what’s actually on the container’s filesystem

The browser only sees the first one. If you just want a FileZilla-style directory listing to check that the file is really there, do it via SSH with the Railway CLI.

Something like this:

# 1) Log in

railway login

# 2) From your project folder (linked to the Railway service):

railway ssh -- ls -lah

If you copy the SSH command from the dashboard (right-click service → “Copy SSH command”), you can also do:

railway ssh --project=... --environment=... --service=... -- ls -lah

That runs ls -lah inside the running container and prints the files, similar to what you’d see in FileZilla.

If you actually want a directory listing over the Internet (in the browser), you have to add that yourself in the app: e.g. serve that folder as static files or create a small endpoint that reads the directory and returns HTML/JSON. Railway doesn’t automatically expose the container filesystem as a browsable “index of /”.

Hi all -- I really appreciate all your support. It occurred to me that since I'm using GitHub for deployment, it would have copies of everything uploaded to Railway. I'm on the 30-day trial version of Railway. Is SSH included with that version? I looked all over the place and couldn't find it.

no different, whenever you have an account with active service, you can use railway cli and ssh command

https://docs.railway.com/guides/cli#ssh

So yeah ssh is a free feature