CORS for Railway Deployments: Copy-Paste Reference

CORS on Railway usually breaks for the same boring reasons it breaks everywhere else: wrong origin, missing preflight handling, credentials mixed with *, or a proxy layer eating headers. Railway itself is not the hard part. Your app is. This guide is the version I wish I could paste into every “CORS error on Railway” thread. What Railway changes Railway gives you deployed services on Railway-owned domains and often custom domains on top. That means your frontend and backend commonly end up on different origins: ...

June 12, 2026 · 6 min · headertest.com