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RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN replaces RAILWAY_STATIC_URL

Nnickmacavoy

8/25/2023

Hi team, we've been hunting down a bug with our app today, occurring on many PR Environments and it's come down to RAILWAY_STATIC_URL no longer existing and being replaced by RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN.

Where are the docs on this?! I can't find anything. Surely instead of removing it you should deprecate it? Unless it's a bug of course, or a memo i've missed. This has broken our project for most of the day.

I've got a Google Cache version of your Variables section of your website (screenshot) and can see RAILWAY_STATIC_URL there but now it's been replaced by RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN (2nd screenshot)

Solution:

Hi Brody, thanks for responding. It was blank yesterday - despite no config changes - and the change to RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN resolved the issue. It might work now but I don't have time to juggle the ENV vars again. Cheers

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Nnickmacavoy

8/26/2023

3e218ec0-7c31-4a5e-ba63-d0f7439aa07d
And now NIXPACKS_NO_CACHE=1 doesn't seem to be working on the same project so I can't bust the cache
I got the email release today, so the issue above seems that RAILWAY_STATIC_URL doesn't work (it may now if it's been fixed?), it's just been straight swapped with RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN instead of phased out

Bbrody192

8/26/2023

RAILWAY_STATIC_URL still exists https://utilities.up.railway.app/env-vars?prefix=RAILWAY_
that service was redeployed a few seconds ago
oh and I'm not sure why but apologies, this thread has seemed to have flown under the radar until your message just now

Solution

Nnickmacavoy

8/26/2023

Bbrody192

8/26/2023

glad you've got it working!

Nnickmacavoy

8/27/2023

Just confirming something please. I've got everything working but I've found something unusual.

In the screenshot, ASSET_HOST and EMAIL_HOST point to their respective Shared Variables. The Shared Variables both point to {{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}}. This setup doesn't work – both ASSET_HOST and EMAIL_HOST return nothing.

To get it working, which i've done in the last hour, I had to not use Shared Variables. I had to set ASSET_HOST and EMAIL_HOST to {{RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN}} directly and not through Shared Variables.

We've always set these two variables (and many more) using Shared Variables and it's always worked, has this changed? Is this a bug?

Bbrody192

8/27/2023

yeah thats just not how it works
you want to reference the service's RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN directly
any reason why you are trying to go through the shared variables?

Bbrody192

8/27/2023

this would be how it's intended to be used

Bbrody192

8/27/2023

and don't worry, that service name will auto update if you change the service name in its own settings

Nnickmacavoy

8/27/2023

Thanks Brody, I appreciate the response and understand where I was going wrong with that

Bbrody192

8/27/2023

no problem!