Serving self-hosted Invoice Ninja with Caddy

Invoice Ninja is an open-source platform which helps you take care of clients, invoices, payments, expenses, time-tracking, and more… In this guide I explain how you can run Invoice Ninja on your own server with Caddy and PHP-FPM. Prerequisites MySQL Server up and running PHP-FPM up and running I assume that you have already setup […]

Running Caddy as a service on macOS X server

Installing Caddy Download Caddy from the official website. Give the executable root permissions1: $ chown root ./caddy $ chmod +s ./caddy Caddyfile Caddy reads it configuration for the Caddyfile. More information can be found in the official documentation. Launchd config Create a launchd plist file: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.caddyserver.web.plist. This file should look like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> […]

Two months ago I started to “Serve The Web Like It’s 2016”, and I’m still loving Caddy!

Caddy? Wooha, hold your horses, what is Caddy?! Caddy is a web server like Apache or Nginx, but different: Caddy is a modern web server (supporting HTTP/2) with elegant and easy configuration. It comes with automated HTTPS (with Let’s Encrypt) and a growing number of extensions (including Git support). It’s open source software, written in […]

Serving ownCloud with Caddy

In this post, I’ll walk you through how to set up ownCloud with Caddy for a secure, personal cloud service. I wrote this guide while configuring on Ubuntu 14. ownCloud A quick introduction to ownCloud for those who never heard about it (as found on Wikipedia): OwnCloud (stylized ownCloud) is a suite of client-server software […]

Running Caddy Server as a service with systemd

In a previous blogpost I explained how to run Caddy (a brilliant and simple web server) as a service using Upstart. Systemd, however, replaced Upstart on most of the operating systems, so it makes more sense to have a guide for systemd. Caddy executable We don’t run Caddy as root to keep things as secure as […]

Caddy Server and WordPress (PHP-FPM)

Update: I added rewrite rules for WordPress permalinks to the Caddyfile. I also removed all unnecessary bits which are not needed anymore since Caddy now has built-in HTTPS support with Let’s Encrypt. Recently I discovered an amazing open source project: Caddy, a fully functional HTTP/2 webserver, written in Go. Caddy is a lightweight, general-purpose web server for […]

Running Caddy Server as a service with Upstart

Update: Need to run Caddy as service with systemd? Checkout this blogpost! Recently I discovered a very promising webserver (written in Go) called Caddy. Now, Caddy is just an executable, which I wanted to turn into a service on my Ubuntu server. Upstart Running any executable as a service can be done using Upstart. Once […]