Guide for setting up Caddy 2 on Windows 10 for jellyfin and file server

[francislavoie]

@tampabay

Yes, that’s what i posted and you said it appeared to be version 1 for the caddyfile. Due to the lack of updated information on V2, it appears Caddy is reserved for those in the coding world.

No, the pastebin in that reddit post, i.e. https://pastebin.com/9MCkLFyX, is a Caddy v2 config. That’s not what you posted. What you posted used proxy which is the Caddy v1 directive. In v2, it’s reverse_proxy. For example, this line in what you posted:

@tampabay

proxy / localhost:8096 { # the location of your install

I really don’t understand what the problem is here. That guide on reddit is very complete and covers everything you might need to run Caddy on windows to proxy Jellyfin.

@tampabay

but it doesn’t appear that anyone can really tell me how to set it up to protect jellyfin

What do you mean by “protect”? Jellyfin has user authentication built-in.

@tampabay

On jellyfin, it states that "To get HTTPS, simply change the first line to your domain name, with their example being: 1st line: example.com - 2nd line being: reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8096. I’m not running this on a domain, simply on my pc with localhost and a DNS pointed to it, so what goes in place of example.com?

This is a bit contradictory. If you have “a DNS pointed to it” then you have a domain. DNS is an acronym for “domain name system”.

If you just want Caddy to proxy requests to Jellyfin without HTTPS, then you can use :80 as your site address instead of your domain… but most people want HTTPS so their connections between their server and the clients are encrypted, and for that, you need a domain.

This article may help you better understand:

Using Caddy as a reverse proxy in a home network

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