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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 2 years ago by [B] to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Something I encountered last week.

  • wanted to test running caddy without https and without being open to the world, to turn off automatic https.
  • Googled and came up with auto_https off documentation that I read.
  • It did not work, http still did not work
  • Googled more and landed on forum page that explained why auto_https is not working and that it needs explicitly stated http:\\ or port :80 in the address. Otherwise caddy will listen by default for only https.

It was no biggie, that forum post is literally the second google result for auto_https and does good job, but you asked and I have it fresh in memory...

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Thanks, that's helpful. Yeah the docs for auto_https should explain up-front that this only affects the feature called "Automatic HTTPS" and does not change the default port/procotol of Caddy, which is always HTTPS unless otherwise specified (i.e. by using http:// as a site address prefix, or :80 as a suffix).

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