File listing from subfolder

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1

The problem I’m having:

I’m testing caddy in a local machine that I reach at

http://webserver.network.local

and it serves a static website generated with hugo.

I’m trying to serve a file listing from a subdirectory of the domain.
I want to serve some static files from

http://webserver.network.local/packages

with a directory listing, but I keep getting 404 when trying to access it. The hugo site works normally.

Caddy version:

caddy 2.6.2

How I installed and ran Caddy:

caddy was installed as a system package and runs from systemctl

System environment:

the server runs Debian 13.4 with systemd

Command:

systemctl start caddy

My complete Caddy config:

:80 {
handle /packages/ {
root * /var/www/html/packages
file_server {
browse
}
}
root * /var/www/html
file_server
}

I’ve always used apache, but wanted to try caddy. I feel like I’m missing something, because I’m sure this is trivial to obtain.

Thanks in advance for your help

2

  1. You should upgrade Caddy, the version you’re running is quite outdated.

  2. Make sure the Caddy user has the proper permissions to access and read the contents of /var/www/html/packages.

  3. Check your Caddy logs, and consider enabling debug mode. You will likely find more detailed information there that can help with your current issue.

3

thanks a lot, I’ve updated caddy with its own repository, which is more up to date than the standard debian package is.

I’ve also learned about debug mode, which I didn’t know existed :grin:

My caddyfile is now:

:80 {
	handle /packages/* {
		file_server {
			browse
		}
	}
	root * /var/www/html
	file_server
}

and it works if I point my browser at

http://webserver.network.local/packages/

but it won’t add the final slash, so if I go to

http://webserver.network.local/packages

In this latter case, it will still throw a 404.

But this is a minor issue for me.

Thanks a lot for your help