build-caddy

Builds caddy with the specified plugins from plugins.txt.

If you want to support caddy, consider buying a license or sponsoring their project!

I am in no way associated or affiliated with the original project.

requirements

• go > 1.8
• git

usage

1. put url's to the wanted plugin repos in plugins.txt. THE FILE MUST END WITH AN EMPTY LINE
2. edit the line CADDY_VERSION="v0.10.9" to your wanted version (git tag) in build.sh
3. execute ./build.sh
4. the built caddy binary resides in ./build

additional info

• execute sudo setcap "cap_net_bind_service=+ep" /opt/caddy/caddy on the target system to make caddy executable by non-root users

• execute adduser --disabled-password --disabled-login caddy (on debian and friends) to create a non-root user for caddy

• i use this systemd unit file to run caddy

  [Unit]
  Description=Caddy HTTP/2 web server
  Documentation=https://caddyserver.com/docs
  After=network.target
  
  [Service]
  User=caddy
  Group=caddy
  LimitNOFILE=8192
  Environment=STNORESTART=yes
  ExecStart=/opt/caddy/caddy -agree=true -conf=/etc/caddy
  ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
  Restart=on-failure
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target