dockerfile does not exists

4 months ago

I am trying to deploy the application from a mono-repo.

I have defined the dockerfile path in /apps/api/railway.json file.
The dockerfile path lives inside /apps/api (directory)

{
  "$schema": "https://railway.app/railway.schema.json",
  "build": {
    "builder": "DOCKERFILE",
    "dockerfilePath": "api.prod.Dockerfile"
  },
  "deploy": {
    "runtime": "V2",
    "numReplicas": 1,
    "sleepApplication": false,
    "restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
    "restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10,
    "healthcheckPath": "/healthz"
  }
}

Project ID: ef6ba77b-aa19-43cc-ad9d-6cb08b76ca23

11 Replies

0x5b62656e5d

FREETop 1% Contributor

4 months ago

have you tried putting /apps/api/Dockerfile

0x5b62656e5d

FREETop 1% Contributor

4 months ago

im pretty sure putting [api.prod](api.prod).Dockerfile means its trying to find a file with the name [api.prod](api.prod).Dockerfile

passos

MODERATOR

4 months ago

Hey, any reason on why you're using railway.json here? You could do that through the dashboard if necessary.

About your issue, I would say that you didn't set the root directory to /apps/api and thus Railway can't find that railway.json config file

mittalyashu

PROOP

4 months ago

Yeah, change the path to this did the work.

mittalyashu

PROOP

4 months ago

But it's quite strange because I had another project which I followed the same relative directory path and it works just fine in that.

passos

MODERATOR

4 months ago

I'm confident that Railway does not search deeply into directories to locate a railway.json file.

mittalyashu

PROOP

4 months ago

Hey, any reason on why you're using railway.json here? You could do that through the dashboard if necessary.
Keeping the configuration version controller via git helps to understand who made what change.

mittalyashu

PROOP

4 months ago

About your issue, I would say that you didn't set the root directory to /apps/api and thus Railway can't find that railway.json config file
But in that case wouldn't it affect how Docker context works, if we set the root directory path?

passos

MODERATOR

4 months ago

Yep, that would be an issue. Unfortunately, I don't see any configuration that can be done to specify a location of a railway.json file. Your best option here would be using the dashboard.

0x5b62656e5d

FREETop 1% Contributor

4 months ago

-# i think i misread the question a bit oops

passos

MODERATOR

4 months ago

Maybe you could implement a small workaround by moving directories up when executing the build command and similar commands.