Matcher − Exlcude certain files

[eban]

Hi, I’m new to Caddy and I use the cgi module. I’d like to serve all file of my vhost through the CGI excepted /cgit.css /custom.css /logo.svg /favicon.svg /robots.txt, how can I do that ? Maybe with the matcher ?
Thanks for this wonderful software !

[francislavoie]

Yes, with the path matcher.

Request matchers (Caddyfile) - Caddy Documentation

Please fill out the help topic template with your existing Caddyfile, and what you’ve tried so far, etc.

[eban]

I read this, and now I have this config

git.eban.bzh {
    root / /var/www/cgit/
    file_server
    encode zstd gzip

    @notStatics {
          path app /
          not {
                path *.(svg|css)
          }
    }

    cgi @notStatics /run/fcgiwrap.socket {
        env SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/cgit/cgit.cgi
        env CGIT_CONFIG /etc/cgitrc
    }
}

But it doesn’t work at all, I get a 404
I’m running Caddy v2.4.3 h1:Y1FaV2N4WO3rBqxSYA8UZsZTQdN+PwcoOcAiZTM8C0I= on Debian 11

[EDIT] The original nginx file is

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

    include conf.d/tls.conf;

    server_name git.eban.bzh;
    root /var/www/cgit/;
    try_files  $uri @cgit;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    location @cgit {
      include             fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_param       SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/cgit.cgi;
      fastcgi_param       PATH_INFO       $uri;
      fastcgi_param       QUERY_STRING    $args;
      fastcgi_param       HTTP_HOST       $server_name;
      fastcgi_pass        unix:/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    }
}

[francislavoie]

@eban

root / /var/www/cgit/

This isn’t correct. Path matching is exact in Caddy v2, so matching on / will only match requests to exactly / and nothing else. Instead, use * to match all requests.

@eban

path app /

Same here. This only matches exactly /. I don’t think that’s what you intended.

@eban

    @notStatics {
          path app /
          not {
                path *.(svg|css)
          }
    }

Instead of this, you could use the file matcher to determine if the request is to a file that exists on disk. That would more closely match how the nginx config works, which uses try_files.

Again, please fill out the help topic template. It’s unclear how you’re actually running Caddy or how you built it, so I have to start making assumptions and that wastes time for both of us.