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Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can somebody explain in plain English what it is used for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Caddy is an http server, often used as a reverse proxy. It’s particularly useful for TLS termination and automatic TLS certificate management.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sits in charge of your ports 80/443 and decides to which webserver it sends traffic. If to your jellyfin, or your nextcloud, or your uptimekuma, or your vaultwarden or your mealie or your dashboard...

unlike others it automaticly do https certificate for you and its config is really clean and readable which is nice.

Heres how to set it up if you wanna try.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cool! Thanks!