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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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

One thing that threw me in the beginning was that the docs didn't show examples in context. As an example, if you look at the basicauth docs it shows:

basicauth /secret/* {
	Bob $2a$14$Zkx19XLiW6VYouLHR5NmfOFU0z2GTNmpkT/5qqR7hx4IjWJPDhjvG
}...
}

Where can I use this? Globally? In the top-level of the virtualhost definition? If I'm reverse proxying, do I put it inside the reverse_proxy stanza? I used Apache for years and the docs always stated what context directives could be used in, eg.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#acceptpathinfo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You're meant to read https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts#structure first, which explains that directives always go within a site block, and can sometimes be nested within other special directives like handle and route.

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