{"id":1506,"date":"2020-06-07T21:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1506"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:26:41","slug":"what-does-activation-failed-invalid-or-missing-railgun-token-or-tag-mean-when-starting-railgun","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/what-does-activation-failed-invalid-or-missing-railgun-token-or-tag-mean-when-starting-railgun","title":{"rendered":"What does \u2018Activation Failed: Invalid or missing railgun token or tag\u2019 mean when starting Railgun?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What does \u2018Activation Failed: Invalid or missing railgun token or tag\u2019 mean when starting Railgun?<\/h4>\n<p>When starting the Railgun service for the first time, you may\u00a0see an error that states:<\/p>\n<pre>Starting railgun Error starting Railgun as a daemon. Running in foreground... Error activating: Activation Failed: Invalid or missing railgun token or tag.  [fail]<\/pre>\n<p>There are two possible causes for this error:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The\u00a0<a title=\"railgun.conf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/docs\/railgun\/installation.html#configuration-and-activation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">railgun.conf<\/a>\u00a0file doesn\u2019t have the proper public IP (<code>activation.public_ip<\/code>\u00a0or<code>activation.railgun_host<\/code>\u00a0in newer versions of Railgun) and\/or activation token (<code>activation.token<\/code>) configured.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a chance the Railgun created for the domain\u00a0in your account\u00a0was not created properly. Delete it, create a new one, and try again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If the issue persists after trying both of these steps, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">support<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does \u2018Activation Failed: Invalid or missing railgun token or tag\u2019 mean when starting Railgun? When starting the Railgun service for the first time, you may\u00a0see an error that states: Starting railgun Error starting Railgun as a daemon. Running in foreground&#8230; Error activating: Activation Failed: Invalid or missing railgun token or tag. [fail] There are two possible causes for this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[43],"kbtag":[1452,1419],"class_list":["post-1506","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cloudflare","kbtag-activation-failed","kbtag-railgun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1506\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}