How to convert from caddyfile to json?

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I am currently using caddyfile and it is working fine. However I have a need for layer4 which doesn’t support caddyfile.

How do I convert to using json? Right now its using the /etc/caddy/caddyfile?

Also is there an easy caddfyfile to json convertor so that I don’t have to write out what is working in caddyfile to json. I can just add the layer4 items items that I need. I found an online tool but looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while because it didn’t work.

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caddy adapt --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile

I found this option but it compressed the text all together with the json formating.

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Yep, use caddy adapt. You can use the --pretty flag to have it printed out nicely.

See the docs Command Line — Caddy Documentation or run caddy help adapt which shows the command’s documentation.

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How do you switch from using caddyfile to json is my next question?

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You haven’t filled out the help topic template, as per the forum rules.

So I can’t answer that without having more information about your setup, which OS you’re on, how you installed Caddy, etc.

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I thought it was a basic enough question on how you would convert to using a json file instead of a Caddyfile.

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If said above is not clear, let me help you to clarify the basic enough answer you are looking for

add --pretty to your option you found but compressed all together
and write your output into a file, say caddyfile.json to /var/www by using >>

Tada, your new basic enough answer:
caddy adapt --config /usr/local/www/Caddyfile --pretty >> /var/www/caddyfile.json

and if the space is too far apart in your json file , my method is open up the file in notepad , press Ctrl+H , replace ' ' ← (8 spaces) with ' ' <— (2 or more spaces)

Hopefully my answer is basic enough :blush:

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That question is ambiguous though. There’s many different ways of running Caddy. You might run it as a systemd service, or in Docker, or manually via the command line, etc. Each of those have a different answer for how to make changes to how you run it.

Like I said, filling the help topic template is a rule here. If you don’t fill it out, it wastes both our time, because I don’t know the information I need to answer your questions accurately, so I have to repeat with additional questions, meaning we have more roundtrips.

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 volumes:
      - ./temp/caddy-config.json:/etc/caddy/caddy-config.json
      - ./certs/hx-dashboard.crt:/etc/caddy/hx-dashboard.crt
      - ./certs/hx-dashboard.key:/etc/caddy/hx-dashboard.key
      - hxd-dashboard-proxy:/data
    command: ["caddy", "run", "--config", "/etc/caddy/caddy-config.json"]

https://caddy.community/t/cant-connect-to-database-behind-layer4-server/16168
I ended up using the clip found here to determine how to switch from using caddyfile in docker to json.
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