Persistent content caching despite successful deployments
digitalbradley
HOBBYOP

2 months ago

Issue Summary: Persistent content caching despite successful deployments. GitHub repository contains updated content, but Railway serves outdated versions even after multiple troubleshooting attempts.

Evidence of the Problem:

  • GitHub repository shows current content (commit 63d51da)

  • Railway builds successfully from identical commit

  • Multiple platforms (Vercel, Render) pull same git commit, confirming repository state

  • Cant access updated dashboard showing old dashboard

  • cant access admin dashboard after changes made in development

  • Updated scoring methodology page displays old content on Railway deployment

  • Fresh Railway deployments still serve cached content

Troubleshooting Steps Attempted:

  1. Multiple fresh deployments - Deleted and recreated services completely

  2. GitHub integration - Connected directly to repository instead of CLI uploads

  3. Build cache disabling - Added NO_CACHE=1 environment variable

  4. Browser cache elimination - Tested in incognito, hard refresh, multiple browsers

  5. Repository verification - Confirmed all platforms pull identical git commit (63d51da)

  6. Build process validation - Railway logs show successful builds and health checks

Current Status:

  • Railway builds complete successfully

  • Health checks pass

  • Server functionality works correctly

  • Static assets serve outdated content despite fresh builds

  • Issue persists across completely new Railway projects

Business Impact: Cannot demonstrate current application version to investors or integrate with external services (Zapier) due to outdated interface and documentation being served instead of current GitHub content.

The evidence strongly suggests Railway's CDN or asset serving infrastructure has persistent caching behavior that survives fresh deployments and build cache disabling.

Just now I updated my gitignore to remove /docs and I am still seeing outdated content. I need help on this asap.

Thank you.

$10 Bounty

2 Replies


brody
EMPLOYEE

2 months ago

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Status changed to Open brody 2 months ago


Railway does zero caching of their own.

Are you using Cloudflare? Have you tried going into development mode with them?

If the issue still persists then this is an issue with your application, not Railway.


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