diff --git a/app/api/github/callback/route.ts b/app/api/github/callback/route.ts
index 6543e08b..8049d1ed 100644
--- a/app/api/github/callback/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/github/callback/route.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
 import { createClient } from "@/lib/supabase/server";
 import { getInstallation } from "@/lib/github/app";
 import { upsertInstallation } from "@/lib/github/installations";
+import { publicUrl } from "@/lib/request-url";
 
 export const runtime = "nodejs";
 
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
 
   if (!installationId) {
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(`${SETTINGS_URL}?error=missing_installation_id`, request.url),
+      publicUrl(request.headers, `${SETTINGS_URL}?error=missing_installation_id`),
     );
   }
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
     // Park them at login with this callback as the redirect.
     const back = `${SETTINGS_URL}?installation_id=${installationId}`;
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(`/login?redirect=${encodeURIComponent(back)}`, request.url),
+      publicUrl(request.headers, `/login?redirect=${encodeURIComponent(back)}`),
     );
   }
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
   // don't own — there's nothing for us to persist yet.
   if (setupAction === "request") {
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(`${SETTINGS_URL}?notice=install_requested`, request.url),
+      publicUrl(request.headers, `${SETTINGS_URL}?notice=install_requested`),
     );
   }
 
@@ -60,14 +61,14 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
   } catch (err) {
     const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : "unknown";
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(
+      publicUrl(
+        request.headers,
         `${SETTINGS_URL}?error=${encodeURIComponent("install_callback:" + msg)}`,
-        request.url,
       ),
     );
   }
 
   return NextResponse.redirect(
-    new URL(`${SETTINGS_URL}?connected=1`, request.url),
+    publicUrl(request.headers, `${SETTINGS_URL}?connected=1`),
   );
 }
diff --git a/app/api/github/setup-callback/route.ts b/app/api/github/setup-callback/route.ts
index ccba5a69..e9099aa2 100644
--- a/app/api/github/setup-callback/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/github/setup-callback/route.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
 import { convertAppManifest } from "@/lib/github/app";
+import { publicUrl } from "@/lib/request-url";
 
 export const runtime = "nodejs";
 
@@ -13,10 +14,7 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
   const code = new URL(request.url).searchParams.get("code");
   if (!code) {
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(
-        "/admin/github/setup?error=missing_code",
-        request.url,
-      ),
+      publicUrl(request.headers, "/admin/github/setup?error=missing_code"),
     );
   }
   try {
@@ -35,17 +33,14 @@ export async function GET(request: NextRequest) {
       owner: result.owner.login,
     });
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(
-        `/admin/github/setup/done#${params.toString()}`,
-        request.url,
-      ),
+      publicUrl(request.headers, `/admin/github/setup/done#${params.toString()}`),
     );
   } catch (err) {
     const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : "unknown";
     return NextResponse.redirect(
-      new URL(
+      publicUrl(
+        request.headers,
         `/admin/github/setup?error=${encodeURIComponent(msg)}`,
-        request.url,
       ),
     );
   }
diff --git a/lib/request-url.ts b/lib/request-url.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4cb5943
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/request-url.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+// Behind Railway's reverse proxy, Next.js's `request.url` reports the
+// internal bind address (e.g. http://0.0.0.0:8080/...) instead of the
+// public URL. That's correct per HTTP semantics — the Host header IS
+// 0.0.0.0:8080 from the upstream perspective — but it breaks any code
+// that uses `request.url` to build a public Location header on a
+// redirect, because the browser then gets sent to the bind address.
+//
+// This helper picks the correct base by preferring x-forwarded-host +
+// x-forwarded-proto (the values Railway's proxy adds), falling back to
+// the raw Host header. It ignores 0.0.0.0 / 127.0.0.1 hostnames so they
+// can never get baked into a Location header.
+
+import { env } from "@/lib/env";
+
+interface HeaderSource {
+  get(name: string): string | null;
+}
+
+export function publicBaseUrlFromHeaders(headers: HeaderSource): string {
+  const fwdHost = headers.get("x-forwarded-host");
+  const fwdProto = headers.get("x-forwarded-proto");
+  const rawHost = headers.get("host");
+
+  const candidate = fwdHost ?? rawHost;
+  const proto = fwdProto ?? "https";
+
+  if (
+    candidate &&
+    !candidate.startsWith("0.0.0.0") &&
+    !candidate.startsWith("127.0.0.1") &&
+    !candidate.startsWith("localhost")
+  ) {
+    return `${proto}://${candidate}`.replace(/\/$/, "");
+  }
+  // Last-ditch fallback to the env (dev case where headers are sparse).
+  return env.siteUrl.replace(/\/$/, "");
+}
+
+/** Build an absolute URL anchored at the public base. Use this instead
+ *  of `new URL(path, request.url)` when constructing redirect Location
+ *  values — `request.url` carries the internal host behind a proxy. */
+export function publicUrl(headers: HeaderSource, path: string): string {
+  const base = publicBaseUrlFromHeaders(headers);
+  // path may include a fragment (#...) — preserve verbatim, don't pass
+  // through URL() which would percent-encode the fragment payload.
+  return `${base}${path.startsWith("/") ? "" : "/"}${path}`;
+}