a month ago
I am trying to get started on Railway, but there seems to be a problem connecting to GitHub. I noticed in the discussions that this happened last week and was resolved. Seems to be a problem again.
When I try to connect to GitHub, it says on Railway:
Error authenticating with GitHub
Problem completing OAuth login
But GitHub shows that the connection actually did happen/work. I deleted the connection and tried again to the same error.
Please help, and let me know if this is worth waiting for, or should I move on and use a different service alltogehter.
2 Replies
a month ago
Hey! Github is in fact having an issue today (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/smf24rvl67v9) that is impacting us, but I don' think this or last week's issue relate to what you are seeing.
It looks like GitHub is actually authenticating you successfully (which is why you see the connection on GitHub's side), but the handoff back to Railway is failing.
The issue appears to be that your browser isn't preserving a security cookie that's needed to complete the login. This is commonly caused by:
- Browser privacy settings blocking third-party cookies
- Privacy extensions (ad blockers, cookie blockers)
- Brave browser's shields or Firefox strict tracking protection
Could you try:
1. Temporarily disabling any ad blocker or privacy extensions
2. Making sure third-party cookies are allowed for railway.com and backboard.railway.com
3. Trying in a different browser to confirm
Let us know if any of those work and we can narrow it down further.
Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway • 29 days ago
a month ago
Thank you. I made no changes on my end, but tried again (not sure if the beginning of a new hour helped or not). It worked this time. I appreciate the quick reply
Status changed to Awaiting Railway Response Railway • 29 days ago
Status changed to Solved sam-a • 29 days ago