Is there any reason I can’t use a cert that caddy grabbed for serving pages for the underlying websocket server of a database used by that site? both caddy and this db server are on the same machine so maybe as simple as telling db server where to find the cert file?

I answered my own question. The answer is yes which is convenient. look in .local/share/caddy to find the certs.

Possible to use a caddy grabbed cert for web socket on db server

matt (Matt Holt) July 28, 2020, 5:03am 3

That’s right! In fact, Caddy can be used as a stand-alone certificate manager/renewer, without a web server:

Thanks for posting your findings.

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