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• 🧵 How to Enable Inertia SSR in a Laravel Project on Railway?

• 🧵 Php laravel, node: not found for running SSR

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I finally got Inertia SSR working on Railway using two separate services:

• Laravel Web App

• Inertia SSR Server

Here’s the exact setup in a simple format:

1. Laravel Web Service

Environment variables:

INERTIA_SSR_ENABLED=true
INERTIA_SSR_URL=http://<your-ssr-service>.railway.internal:13714

Use the Private Networking URL from the SSR service (not the public URL).

Example:

http://private.railway.internal:13714

Build (optional):

npm install && npm run build

Laravel will now call the SSR server internally.

2. Inertia SSR Service

Railway detects this as PHP, so Node is not available at runtime.

To solve that:

Build command:

npm install && npm run build:ssr

Start command:

chmod +x run-node.sh && ./run-node.sh

run-node.sh:

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# Install Node at runtime
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | bash -
apt-get update && apt-get install -y nodejs

# Start Inertia SSR server
php artisan inertia:start-ssr --runtime=node

This ensures Node exists when the SSR server starts.

SSR now works on every page load

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