Caddyfile boilerplate

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I find that almost all of my websites in my Caddyfile have some amount of boilerplate that must be included in every entry. I currently deal with that using an import:

# reusable snippets: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts#snippets
(boilerplate) {
	encode gzip zstd
	file_server
}

Which I include in each website’s section using import boilerplate.

First of all, is there a more elegant solution?

Second of all, if you find yourself with similar boilerplate sections, what is in your boilerplate?

In Caddy v1, I used the “expires” plugin to set a caching policy on all of my sites, so in Caddy v2 I’ll also probably be setting the headers as recommended in my boilerplate, once I get around to it.

Third, I find myself including a www redirect section for every domain, like this:

# redirect no-www to www
sunrisepvd.com {
	redir https://www.sunrisepvd.com{uri}
}

I don’t think this can go in the boilerplate for every domain section because it seems to need to be its own entry. Also I don’t know how to use variables to make this generic, instead of specific to each site. How would you go about this?

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Yep, snippets is the way to do it.

For the www redir, you can do a snippet like this:

(redir-to-www) {
	{args.0} {
		redir https://www.{args.0}{uri}
	}
}

# then later, at the top-level, not in a site block:
import redir-to-www sunrisepvd.com
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