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Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (17 children)

The documentation it's surprisingly bad at explaining common patterns of use.

It is also a bit thicker compared to nginx or HAproxy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Totally agree.

The main problem is it's all written as a reference -- for people who already understand what/how, who need to just refresh their memory of the actual syntax.

There's very little explanatory stuff for people who need more than that. I had to read the same stuff multiple times, traversing many (or often, the same!) links, make notes, and then form a mental picture of what is going on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Caddy maintainer here, if you could point to specific sections you find confusing, that would help. We rarely receive actionable feedback about the docs, so it's hard for us to make improvements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something I encountered last week.

  • wanted to test running caddy without https and without being open to the world, to turn off automatic https.
  • Googled and came up with auto_https off documentation that I read.
  • It did not work, http still did not work
  • Googled more and landed on forum page that explained why auto_https is not working and that it needs explicitly stated http:\\ or port :80 in the address. Otherwise caddy will listen by default for only https.

It was no biggie, that forum post is literally the second google result for auto_https and does good job, but you asked and I have it fresh in memory...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, that's helpful. Yeah the docs for auto_https should explain up-front that this only affects the feature called "Automatic HTTPS" and does not change the default port/procotol of Caddy, which is always HTTPS unless otherwise specified (i.e. by using http:// as a site address prefix, or :80 as a suffix).

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