seerr-railway

A minimal Docker wrapper for deploying Seerr on Railway.

The Problem

Seerr's official Docker image runs as the node user (UID 1000). Railway mounts volumes as root, which means the container can't write to its config directory (/app/config) and crashes on startup with an EACCES permission error.

The Fix

This Dockerfile simply sets USER root so the container can write to the Railway-mounted volume. That's it.

Usage on Railway

1. Fork or clone this repo
2. In Railway: New Service → GitHub Repo → select this repo
3. Add a volume mounted at /app/config
4. Set environment variables:
   • TZ=Europe/London (or your timezone)
   • LOG_LEVEL=info
5. Set port to 5055
6. Generate a public domain and deploy

Notes

• The base image is the official ghcr.io/seerr-team/seerr:latest
• Running as root inside an isolated container is acceptable for personal use
• SQLite is used by default — no database service needed
• See the Seerr docs for full configuration options