Caddy is a general purpose web server alternative to apache server. It is easy to use and configure. It is the only first web server that acquires and renews SSL/TLS certificate automatically using Let's Encrypt.

Features of Caddy:

  • Speedy HTTPS request
  • Least configuration required and hassle free deployment
  • No dependency on any platform
  • No installation required
  • Run on multiple CPUs/Cores
  • Full support for the latest IPV6
  • Serve FastCGI, Reverse Proxy, Rewrite and Redirects, Clean URL, Gzip compression, Directory Browsing, Virtual Hosts, and Headers.
  • Available for Platforms such as Windows, Linux,BSD, Mac, Android. 

 

STEPS TO INSTALL CADDY IN FEDORA, REDHAT, CENTOS:

# dnf install 'dnf-command(copr)'
# dnf copr enable @caddy/caddy # dnf install caddy 

 

On Redhat/CentOS 7:

# yum install yum-plugin-copr
# yum copr enable @caddy/caddy
# yum install caddy

 

STEPS TO INSTALL CADDY IN DEBIAN AND UBUNTU:

$ echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://apt.fury.io/caddy/ /" \
    | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-fury.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install caddy

 

Upon successful installation of Caddy, we can check the status, start and enable the service using the following commands:

# systemctl start caddy
# systemctl enable caddy
# systemctl status caddy

 

Open the browser and point it to the following address:

http://Server-IP

OR

http://yourdomain.com



STEPS TO SET UP DOMAINS WITH CADDY:



1] Point your domains A/AAAA DNS records at this server in your DNS control panel.

 

2] Create a document root directory for your website under folder /var/www/html using the following command

$ mkdir /var/www/html/abc.com


3] If SELinux is being used,then change the file security context for web content by using the below command

 

# chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/abc.com -R
# chcon -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/html/abc.com -R

 

4] Open and edit caddy configuration file at /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

vim /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

 

5] Replace :80 with your domain name and change the site root to /var/www/html/abc.com.

6] Reload Caddy to save the configuration change using the following command:

systemctl reload caddy

 

7] Create any HTML page and save it under document root directory for your website.

touch /var/www/html/example.com/index.html

 

8] Add the following sample Html code to your website’s index page.

echo '<!doctype html><head><title>Caddy Test Page at Rootadminz</title></head><body><h1>Hello, World!</h1></body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/html/index.html



9] Visit the site again to see the page.

Upon successful configuration, the domain will be accompanied by HTTPS protocol assuring secure connection.

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