Getting started with Caddy the HTTPS Web Server from scratch

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Caddy is an HTTP/2-enabled web server written in Go by Matthew Holt. It supports HTTPs by default and its one of the easiest web servers that provide lot of functionality such is proxying and load balancing and much more. Recently the QUIC http/3 is being added to this web server as well
This is a short video to show you guys how to setup caddy web server, run it a local http web server then secure it with HTTPS. We will probably make another video to showcase the advanced features of this cool web server or perhaps a crash course.
Note: I forgot to mention that since your IP is dynamic you will need to always update your IP address with the dynamic dns every-time your router gets a new public IP Address.
Matt Holt Twitter / mholt6
Jump codes
2:55 Installing
3:30 Run HTTP caddy
5:00 Expose your host publicly
7:30 Dynamic DNS (Free)
10:30 Caddy HTTPS
14:00 Summary
Cards
5:50 NAT
6:30 Public vs private ip
13:00 TLS
Install caddy
caddyserver.com/tutorial/begi...
run local http web server
Expose site publicly
secure caddy with https
brew install caddy
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Hussein

[@moebob24]

A very underrated tech channel here! Excellent video. Just subscribed!

[@hnasr]

Bill Bennett thank you Bill!!! 😊🙏

[@muhammadahmad4093]

watching the first video from your great channel

[@gotamp24]

i really like your content. keep up the good work man. 🍻

[@hnasr]

Gotam P thanks for the support!

[@evanschaba945]

im so happy people are finding caddy to be enjoyable

[@hnasr]

Evans Chaba pretty neat software

[@ArashAkbarpour]

Good job man. Enjoyed.

[@pipi_delina]

Just learnt of the existence of the project and I saw your video and I knew I will be an expert in a minute... 🤗🤗😂 Thanks Hussein

[@hnasr]

haha So nice of you! I still need to make a video on Caddy 2

[@esquilo_atomico]

My boyyyyy this is awesome. Thank you

[@jewelzelal]

enjoyed and helpful. thank you

[@SoulReaper599xx]

Great video! Learned great new things. Any plans to make videos for hosting on AWS or other cloud services?

[@hnasr]

Hollow Knight I probably should, if I will Im planning to use DigitalOcean for starters.

[@madhuvanthgopalan4]

Thank you for all the great content you put out there. I have a question- how was Caddy able to secure the website without validating that you own that DNS?

[@madhuvanthgopalan4]

It probably is more a Let's encrypt feature than Caddy's, but I'm still wondering, where did it validate the domain ownership.

[@madhuvanthgopalan4]

I landed here and I think this is the answer (or at least part of it)- letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/ Caddy is the ACME client for Let's Encrypt, I imagine.

[@johnlovell8299]

Caddy wubserver! Thanks Hussein for the great tutorial!

[@hnasr]

John Lovell hey John your welcome thanks for your message! 🙏 still can’t pronounce it

[@johnlovell8299]

@@hnasr can't wait to finish the tutorial. Already have the HTTP going through :). Next up: TLS baby!

[@CraigregnierNet]

Thanks man, I had tons of Caddy problems then I deleted the .caddy folder and everything worked.

[@hnasr]

Yes deleting .caddy folder solved many of my problems too. Thanks for your comment.

[@jame_sta]

Hi @Hussein Nasser I love the video! Would you please create another video like this but with using the Caddyfile config setup? I think that would be awesome!! As Caddy Server really lacks videos and content, the devs don't make videos for their own product.

[@chrisparky]

Just watched this and agree a Caddy config video would be great. I've had a load of issues trying to get Caddy to work so I will try the tips in this video shortly.

[@user-pg4dh8ok9v]

Thank you so much!

[@lowenzahn107]

hi , thanks for your great videos. BTW do u have video regarding SOAP ?

[@hnasr]

LOWENzahn thanks 😊 yes I do -- Simple Object Access Protocol Pros and Cons (Explained by Example) kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6WbqpWhhtp0npo

[@lowenzahn107]

@@hnasr cool, thanks )

[@hopewise99]

What's that cool frontier communication panel that you used for port forwarding settings? I searched but did not find anything

[@manusiasejati577]

Man, you need some energy drink.

[@nchomey]

It would be cool if you could do a new video on Caddy, given that the first v2 beta was released at about the same time as this video and then the official v2 release 8 months later (3.5 years ago)!

[@augmentos]

Caddy2 now!

[@marccawood]

Is caddy multi-thread on windows? That's currently a major weakness of Nginx free.

[@jain007neeraj]

just `caddy` doesn't work anymore, we either have to use `caddy run` or `caddy start` even after that it always says 404 page not found. Even when I have index.html available

[@hnasr]

Looks like I need to make Caddy 2

[@BromleyJohn]

Try this:- caddy file-server --listen :2021

[@marcusk7855]

I just get an error entering "caddy -host (myhomename)" says unknown command.

[@marcusk7855]

Seems like "-host" has been replaced with "trust"

[@damiendye6623]

was hoping to have a proper in depth setup on caddy but 60% of the video wasn't caddy related. :-(

[@kaanaslan1068]

Hello, how can I secure my address with CaddyFile? I try the command caddy -host CaddyFile but it doesn't secure it. My CaddyFile is as below: # Django mydomainaddress.com { root /root/my_projects/my_project proxy / 127.0.0.1:8000 { transparent except /static } log /var/log/caddy.log ---- if I run it as: caddy -host mydomainaddress.com it works fine and I get the HTTPS but how am I going to be able to set this in the file and what command should I use?

[@hnasr]

Maybe update your file so it says instead of ? And i think you just need to run caddy without any parameter it will detect the caddyfile if it was in the same folder that.

[@oroville12345]

how can i do this with ipv6 and a CGNAT?

[@Mohammed71793]

it is not working for me. maybe I will try this after few days

[@wilbertvanbakel]

I' m watching a video and look at a prompt for several minutes and getting bored already

[@SHUBHAMSINGH-vd4yd]

How to do port forwaring if I am using mobile wifi ??

[@hnasr]

SHUBHAM SINGH you mean mobile LTE? Well you can’t because there is no router or your control. If you mean WIFI then sure that is what I did I was on WIFI

[@SHUBHAMSINGH-vd4yd]

Hussein Nasser yes, mobile LTE. I am glad you answered. Also I would like to tell you that the thumbnails in your videos are so catchy, that I get attracted to veiw one video after other😂. Anyways, nice content brother.

[@adamtak3128]

Any chance of getting a GraphQL api video like your REST one?

[@hnasr]

Adam Tak Oh yeah Im so excited about this technology, Im writing the script and doing the research will keep you guys updated! Thanks for your comment

[@adamtak3128]

@@hnasr You're amazing! I'm looking forward to it. Thanks. I found your channel because I was looking into cookies and sessions to secure my routes for login/register and protected routes like post creation, comment creation and so on. Every example I find is using JWT which people say is insecure so I'm trying to learn all about protecting my GraphQL api.

[@hnasr]

GraphQL video up! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIfQgnakhsR4htU

[@chrisg394]

NAT? IPv6 to the rescue!

[@Sippu-tw9jt]

DHARMENDRA SAINI

[@joeharrison6197]

im using duckdns and every time it tries to get the https certs its fails

[@hnasr]

Did you try the workaround at 13:00?

[@joeharrison6197]

Hussein Nasser got it working I used a different caddy version

[@hnasr]

Joe Harrison nice! Which version did it break for you so people in the future wouldnt run into it.

[@joeharrison6197]

Hussein Nasser was the latest stable version no beta ones