Happy path works, but how to failback?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

It’s due to directive ordering:

Caddyfile Directives - Caddy Documentation

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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…

In short, your solution is good (although you can change your handle_path to handle, since there’s no prefix to strip).