https://catinashell.de/tags/caddy/ Recent content in Caddy on Cat in a Shell Hugo en-us Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:06:17 +0200 https://catinashell.de/posts/secure-a-caddy-server-and-best-practices/ Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:14:58 +0200 https://catinashell.de/posts/secure-a-caddy-server-and-best-practices/ <p>I currently use <a href="https://caddyserver.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caddy</a> for the statically generated Hugo Blog, since Caddy seems like a robust webserver written in go (so memory safe) and rather fast. Also it handles https automatically, requesting certificates etc. so no longer having to run anything manually. Also its pretty easy to configure for this use case</p> <style> .heading { text-decoration: none; } .heading:hover { color: rgba(200,200,255,0.7); } .heading-anchor { margin-left: -1em; position: absolute; opacity: 0; text-decoration: none; transition: opacity 0.15s; } h1:hover .heading-anchor, h2:hover .heading-anchor, h3:hover .heading-anchor, h4:hover .heading-anchor, h5:hover .heading-anchor, h6:hover .heading-anchor { opacity: 1; } </style> <a href="#minimal-caddy-config" class="heading"> <h4 id="minimal-caddy-config"> <div class="heading-anchor" aria-label="Link to this section"> # </div> Minimal Caddy Config </h4> </a> <style> .codeblock { position: relative; margin: 1.4em 0; border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); border-radius: 8px; background: #272822; } .codeblock-label { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 8px; padding: 8px 12px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1); font-size: 0.8rem; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); } .codeblock-icon { align-items: center; width: 14px; height: 14px; flex-shrink: 0; opacity: 0.85; fill: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7); } .codeblock-copybtn { position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; background: transparent; color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5); cursor: pointer; } .codeblock-copybtn:hover { color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.08); } .codeblock-copybtn-icon { margin-right: 4px; } </style> <div class="codeblock"> <div class="codeblock-body"> <button class="codeblock-copybtn"> <span class="codeblock-copybtn-icon"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="currentColor" width="16" > <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" d="M15.666 3.888A2.25 2.25 0 0 0 13.5 2.25h-3c-1.03 0-1.9.693-2.166 1.638m7.332 0c.055.194.084.4.084.612v0a.75.75 0 0 1-.75.75H9a.75.75 0 0 1-.75-.75v0c0-.212.03-.418.084-.612m7.332 0c.646.049 1.288.11 1.927.184 1.1.128 1.907 1.077 1.907 2.185V19.5a2.25 2.25 0 0 1-2.25 2.25H6.75A2.25 2.25 0 0 1 4.5 19.5V6.257c0-1.108.806-2.057 1.907-2.185a48.208 48.208 0 0 1 1.927-.184" /> </svg> </span> <span class="codeblock-copybtn-label">copy</span> </button><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-caddyfile" data-lang="caddyfile"><span style="display:flex;"><span>catinashell.de { </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">root</span> <span style="color:#a6e22e">*</span> <span style="color:#e6db74">/var/www/blog/public</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> <span style="color:#66d9ef">file_server</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>}</span></span></code></pre></div> </div> </div> <p>this is a pretty basic working example, you generate the content via <code>hugo</code> inside <code>/var/www/blog</code>, move ownership to caddy <code>chown -R caddy:caddy /var/www/blog</code> and done.</p>