I need help with Caddy on my Snap Rocketchat Install

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1. The problem I’m having:

I installed RocketChat using Snaps. If you google RocketChat Snap you can easily see their installation documentation. Everything went well and my server currently works. I want to run a websocket app however it’s failing every time. I did a little digging and found that the only service that was tossing out errors was Caddy. Please note the Caddyfile I currently have is BLANK. The snap runs this if/else if it encounters a blank CaddyFile:

if [[ -s $SNAP_DATA/Caddyfile ]]; then
  # Prioritize v2 over v1
  start_caddy_v2_with_config || start_caddy_v1_with_config
else
  caddy_v2_reverse_proxy $(snapctl get siteurl) http://127.0.0.1:$(snapctl get port)
fi

The .sh prioritizes starting Caddy V2

2. Error messages and/or full log output:

Here are my error messages when I run:

sudo systemctl status snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy

(My server is not called myservername.com I am just redacting that information along with my servers IP address. The from command lists my real server when I run this from my system. Just imagine myservername.com is a real server address that is in use right now)

snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy.service - Service for snap application rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2024-02-08 22:04:16 UTC; 19min ago
   Main PID: 387 (start_caddy.sh)
      Tasks: 8 (limit: 4442)
     Memory: 83.5M
        CPU: 3.749s
     CGroup: /system.slice/snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy.service
             ├─387 /bin/bash /snap/rocketchat-server/1602/bin/start_caddy.sh
             └─710 caddy2 reverse-proxy --change-host-header --from=https://myservername.com --to=http://127.0.0.1:3000

Feb 08 22:04:45 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429885.3187242,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:45 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429885.7395024,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:47 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429887.2157943,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:47 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429887.5334787,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:47 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429887.6165545,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:48 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429888.1892583,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:48 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429888.4584205,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:48 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429888.5101721,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:48 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429888.6714916,"logger":"http.log.error","msg":"dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3000: connect: connection refused","reques>
Feb 08 22:04:48 [IP_ADDRESS] rocketchat-server.rocketchat-caddy[710]: {"level":"error","ts":1707429888.7319

3. Caddy version:

I really wish I could help here. I know its Version 2 because the sh command prioritizes it, but it looks like it was packaged with a snap install and I can’t seem to find this information. Could use help here I guess too.
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4. How I installed and ran Caddy:

I followed the instructions here:

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a. System environment:

Ubuntu Jammy 22.04 Amd64 server on an AWS EC2
I have a bog standard security group set up with this EC2 but just to get it out of the way, I ran a test with ALL PORTS AND IPs open and it still failed. I did this to rule out security group issues. I have since returned to the secure security group settings.

d. My complete Caddy config:

My Caddyfile is BLANK. This is the recommended setting for the snap install. I know where the Caddyfile is and I can edit and change it if necessary.

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This is telling me that Caddy isn’t able to connect to the upstream app. That doesn’t seem like a problem with Caddy specifically.

I don’t think I can help any further, clearly RocketChat is doing some fancy things to wrap running Caddy, so I can’t offer support with that. You should ask the RocketChat community for help with this.

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Thank you so much Francis,

The default behavior for RocketChat snap is to use a blank caddyfile, however, if it finds a caddyfile with a configuration it will use that instead.

I was thinking of editing the Caddyfile and changing it to this (please note I will substitute the app.website.com with my real site name. I use Route 53 on AWS for the CNAME and A Record


app.website.com {
  reverse_proxy localhost:3000 {
    transport http {
      websocket
      transparent
    }
  }
}
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Remove this. It’s incorrect. websocket and transparent don’t exist in Caddy v2.

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So it would just be this?

app.website.com {
  reverse_proxy localhost:3000 {
  }
}
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Probably. But you can remove the braces { } on reverse_proxy (no needed because it’s empty)

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