Any way to restrict HTTP Method?

[caddyrocks (He Ha)]

Hi all,
In nginx, there is a way to restrict HTTP method(s), e.g.

location / {

        limit_except GET {
                deny  all;
        }
        proxy_pass proxy_to_url;
    }

Can Caddy do something similar? If yes, could you show an example?

Thanks,
CS

[Whitestrake (Matthew Fay)]

Hi @caddyrocks, welcome to the Caddy community!

Sorry about your question going unanswered for a few days. This is fairly straightforward, and it involves three features: placeholders, the rewrite directive, and the status directive.

The latter lets you define an arbitrary status response for a given URI, which you can rewrite the request to if the method is not allowed.

example.com {
  rewrite {
    if {method} not GET
    to /method_not_allowed
  }
  status 405 /method_not_allowed
}

https://caddyserver.com/docs/status
https://caddyserver.com/docs/rewrite
https://caddyserver.com/docs/placeholders (notably, the if conditions in this doc to select for different methods if needed)

[caddyrocks (He Ha)]

Thank you!