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Caddy is a HTTP/2 capable web server with automatic HTTPS.

## Installation

Install the caddy package.

## Plugins

If you need more than the base version of caddy, you can use xcaddy-binAUR to customize your caddy server build. This is useful if you need the additional plugins for DNS challenge, etc. Alternatively, if a pre-built package, with the plugins you require, is already available you may choose to install those from AUR, for eg. caddy-cloudflareAUR.

For a custom caddy server build you can use xcaddy to build caddy with the necessary plugin modules:

    $ xcaddy build [<caddy_version>]
       [--output <file>]
       [--with <module[@version][=replacement]>...]

For more information, see the xcaddy repository.

## Configuration

Caddy 2 supports various configuration formats, see config adapters (caddyfile, nginx, json, yaml, toml, among others).

Most commonly, Caddy is configured using a plain text file called Caddyfile. The `Caddyfile` starts with (an optional global options block and) an address of the site to be served, and is followed by a number of directives.

A simple `Caddyfile` hosting the site at `localhost:2020`:

    {
      http_port 2020
    }

    localhost:2020
    file_server

## Usage

    $ caddy help
    $ caddy help run

Caddy can be run by any user from the page's directory, and the `Caddyfile` should be in the same directory:

    $ caddy run

Alternatively you may specify a custom `Caddyfile`:

    $ caddy run -config ../path/to/Caddyfile

## Troubleshooting

### Certificate error

If you are facing any issues related to SSL certificates (especially on non-public domains), it is probably because the running caddy instance does not have permission to add the certificate to the system's trust store. This seems to be the case when `caddy.service` is used to autostart caddy.

To fix this, run the following as root. You only have to run this once in a very long time (lifetime of the root certificate).

    # XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/lib caddy trust

## See also

- Caddy Official Website
- Caddy User Guide
- Caddyfile documentation

Category:

- Web server