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Hello,

Discord is primarily community support, I believe you have prior threads? community support is only as good as you let it be, stuff like MREs help the community help you.

Hi. I'm not sure how to provide an example.. I have the github repo (which is not mine) How do I come up with an acceptable MRE?

If you have a public repo that you are trying to deploy that should be sufficient, please be patient and the community should come to help.

Sorry if I seem frustrated.. I've been at this for 5 days.. I have forked this repo: https://github.com/mercurjs/vendor-panel

Thank you

You're welcome to bump your previous thread, but unfortunately, the team cannot offer application level support.

what does that mean? there's a problem with the application?

it runs without any changes on vercel..

so there is no problem with the application

Logs or error messages would be helpful. "It's not working" is not enough for us community members to go off of

a problem with the application or how you have set it up.

Railway does not hold your hand as much as Vercel does. It's great that you were able to get your app hosted on Vercel with no effort, but clearly something is pulling you back to Railway. We can help you get there, but you have to help us help you

Sure, I understand. The problem is, I've tried many different things and they all fail for different reasons.. I'm not sure at the moment which is the correct approach.. Out of the box with Nixpacks, I get Error: No start command could be found

I tried adding a start script to package.json - "start": "vite"

but it spins up a server on localhost, which likely is not correct

How do you run the app locally? "vite" does not seem like a correct start command.

Running on localhost should be fine. What makes you think it's not working? Again, please share any logs or errors

running locally is just npm run dev

in Vercel, the only thing I had to do was override the build command with yarn run build:preview

That runs a dev environment, in production it should likely be npm run start

correct, however, there is no start script in the package.json

Did you not create one here?

I did and here are the logs:```Starting Container

npm warn config production Use --omit=dev instead.

vendor-panel@1.0.0 start

vite

VITE v5.4.19 ready in 558 ms

➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/

➜ Network: use --host to expose

➜ Inspect: http://localhost:5173/__inspect/

Error: spawn xdg-open ENOENT

at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:285:19)

at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:483:16)

at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)

npm error path /app

npm error command failed

npm error signal SIGTERM

npm error command sh -c vite

npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/logs/2025-06-25T214123253Z-debug-0.log

Stopping Container```

Seems like the vite start command is expecting a /app directory. Please use the start command I suggested above

not sure I follow. you suggested npm run start which would run the start script ("vite") as seen in package.json

Apologies, I'm not too familiar with vite. I've done some Googling and here's what I've found.

Vite should not be used in production as it's optimized for development. Instead, you should npm run build and serve from the resulting distribution with caddy

yes, that all sounds right. "vite build" is used to generate a production build

the problem I'm having is the deployment part

Set your start command to caddy run and see what happens

I thought Railway automatically serves the dist folder from "vite build"

ok, let me try that

It doesn't. Seems like Railpack's Vite detection isn't fantastic

It would help greatly if the source repo had a proper start command. Railway would likely be able to work with that. Because it's missing, Railway doesn't know what to do

yea, that's kind of what I gathered also

I think Railway will use Caddy if the conditions are right.. I am trying to follow this thread - https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1386788139649073223

which basically says I don't need a start script

So the deployment succeeds now and it seems caddy is running, but when I visit the site, I get Bad Gateway

Any errors in the logs?

I finally got this working. It turns out I had to install Caddy package, remove start script, remove Dockerfile and change build script to "vite build"

and then change port to 8080 on my domains

Thanks for your help!

Great! Port was the next thing to check. Glad to hear you got it all working

!s