Caddy (web server)

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Caddy is a webserver which is much simpler to configure than Apache and is supposedly just as fast. It handles HTTPS automatically.

Advantages of Caddy:

• Much simpler configuration with sane defaults (e.g. no directory listing).
• Automatic HTTPS (redirect, public certificates, self-signed certificates)
• Automatic HTTP/2

This article is about Caddy v2.

Note that caddy does not support .htaccess which is only supported in Apache.

Caddyfile

Reverse Proxy

Just use the reverse_proxy directive.
By default, this will automatically preserve headers.
Things like websockets will work automatically.

gitlab.example.com {
  encode zstd gzip
  reverse_proxy localhost:8001
}

HTTP3

Add the following to your Caddyfile:

{ 
  servers {
    protocol {
      experimental_http3
    }
  }
}