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Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by nklmilojevic » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

francislavoie wrote: post #129

nklmilojevic wrote: post #128

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I have just tried again, used caddy:latest and got the same error. Didn't mean to take much of your time, I can open up a GitHub issue if it's the better way to resolve this. EDIT: I have just seen your edit. Will try and report back. Thanks for your time!

Make sure to run "docker pull caddy"! Also, see the docs on docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/_/caddy/ You'll need to build Caddy with the builder image to add the DNS plugin, see the section titled "Adding custom Caddy modules".

Yes, it works like this, thanks @mholt and @francislavoie for the help. I thought it was baked into caddy already. :-)

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by francislavoie » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:46 PM UTC

stonogo wrote: post #124

mholt wrote: post #40

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It was for a class during my grad program. It was an academic interest in understanding client behavior on the Internet that wasn't limited to proprietary networks like Cloudflare or Google. We collected some good measurement data -- anonymous, technical, non-personal, etc -- but the terabytes added up and the academic community didn't seem particularly responsive to it in the end. The "opt-in" / "opt-out" depended o…

>Yet nobody cares. People care about each and every one of those. It's disingenuous to pretend that Caddy was singled out.

Look at the amount of vitriol Caddy got when it originally announced telemetry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16958674

It's not a stretch to say that other projects didn't get as much hate for it. It really hurt the project's momentum when there was such a strong reaction against it.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by jbverschoor » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #113

m_sahaf wrote: post #85

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It's not a random source. The package is created by the release script in Caddy's repo: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/e051e119d1dff75972... There's ongoing effort to package Caddy into Debian. Until then, this is the alternative as stopgap.

Nowhere on the website old or new is any info available. Thanks for pointing out

I swear I couldn't find that page... been looking for half an hour.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by francislavoie » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

x3haloed wrote: post #130

mholt wrote: post #27

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Thanks for the feedback! Glad you have had a good experience with it. That blog post is pretty old. We do have a current upgrade guide here in our docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs/v2-upgrade We also have a (sort of deprecated) wiki with some (slightly outdated) high-level improvements listed: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/wiki/v2:-Improvements

Another piece of feedback: It’s scary to consider using such a crucial piece of software in production when documentation is referred to as “sort of deprecated” and “slightly outdated.”

Because that's the old documentation, from early betas of Caddy v2.

The official documentation at https://caddyserver.com/docs/ is up to date, and not deprecated.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by francislavoie » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:53 PM UTC

jbverschoor wrote: post #133

jbverschoor wrote: post #113

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Nowhere on the website old or new is any info available. Thanks for pointing out

I swear I couldn't find that page... been looking for half an hour.

It's the second link in the top-left of the docs sidebar! I'm surprised you found that difficult to find.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by nhatcher » Mon, May 04, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

I have been using Caddy for quite some time now, as a replacement for "python -m SimpleHTPServer" and by just flipping a switch as real webserver and this is such great news. I am so happy you end up going down the route of an open license, this right here is a game changer. I can't even begin to imagine the ins and outs that must have been crossing your mind in the last year. But, as things stands, I am very sure there is a bright future for Caddy. What a fantastic piece of software. I am one more to be grateful for this product. Thank you. You are helping people.

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by rcarmo » Mon, May 04, 2020, 9:18 PM UTC

Looks great. I have fond memories of Caddy 1.x, but I keep looking for a reverse proxy that can do social auth to protect selected endpoints (I was betting on Traefik having an easy to setup extension for that, but 2.x has been a challenge in other ways...).

Anyone know if Caddy 2 has any such extension beyond the basic auth provider I see in the docs?

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by nodesocket » Mon, May 04, 2020, 9:21 PM UTC

Is there a tool that will parse a v1 config and report breaking changes and recommendations for upgrading to v2?

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by celicaraptor » Mon, May 04, 2020, 9:23 PM UTC

Mojah wrote: post #117

celicaraptor wrote: post #42

Hi mholt!, I am building an ecommerce SaaS.Obviously,i will have each domain pointed to my server.Is Caddy a good choice for automatically getting a certificate for each website?Are there any limitations? Thanks!

Hi! We’ve done this exact same thing and have a technical writeup here: https://ohdear.app/blog/how-we-used-caddy-and-laravels-subdo... Tl:dr: very easy to do, Caddy takes care of 90% of the complexity.

Hi Mattias!, Thank you for pointing me your post.It really helped!Also,ohdear is a brilliant name for this service!

Re: Show HN: Caddy 2

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Post by dilandau » Mon, May 04, 2020, 9:25 PM UTC

Since the author appears to be in the comments, I'll ask here:

What benefits does this provide for the common Nginx usage (reverse proxy to a number of Python/etc application servers)? I see automatic HTTPS and HTTP/2. Am I missing something else notable?