Can't get CF-Connecting-IP to matcher to work

[Mohammed90 (Mohammed Al Sahaf)]

The directive order of respond is higher than reverse_proxy, regardless of the matcher, so it’ll be executed first.

Caddyfile Directives - Caddy Documentation

You need to use the handle directive to make mutually exclusive execution paths.

handle (Caddyfile directive) - Caddy Documentation

Also, I recommend reading this.

Composing in the Caddyfile

Web server config files are mostly about expressing HTTP handling logic. Often, various handlers or middlewares need to be “composed” to form a cohesive HTTP handler that returns the desired responses. Structurally, config files are basically limited to two dimensions: rows and columns (or, lines and tokens). Syntactically, a config file’s second dimension can expand into more dimensions or scopes when blocks are opened (which are usually represented by curly braces { } and/or indentation, simi…