Issue with blog website
nitish754
PROOP

8 months ago

After deploying WordPress on Railway, the platform automatically reinstalls WordPress and deletes all previously uploaded WordPress files (including themes, plugins, and media uploads). I need a way to prevent data loss and retain my custom files across deployments.

$10 Bounty

4 Replies

case
PRO

8 months ago

Can you share details re: how you’re deploying WordPress to Railway? Is it via one of the Railway Templates, or the WordPress Dockerfile — https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress — or some other means?

From what you’re describing, it sounds like maybe you aren’t using a Docker Volume — https://docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/ — so all your customizations are being saved within the container, which are essentially ephemeral, and will disappear with the container whenever it’s recreated in the future.

You need to configure the WordPress instance to save any changes that you need to be persistent, somewhere outside the container, e.g. a mounted volume, or the associated database, etc.


sim
FREE

8 months ago

As @case mentioned you are probably not storing to a volume ^


sim
FREE

8 months ago

Have you seen this wordpress template? It will set everything up for you https://railway.com/deploy/EP4wIt


brody
EMPLOYEE

7 months ago

Hello,

case and sim are correct, nitish - you are not using a volume for data persistence.

I would recommend using the template sim has linked, it will set you up for success.

Best,
Brody


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