Problems with caddy.service and additional parameters

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So I am trying to do one simple thing: starting Caddy at boot.
I have tried various methods over the last 5 hours to get this done. But I simply can’t…
I have seen that there is a caddy.service to run caddy at boot. I completely followed the tutorial and it worked in principle… BUT I have to give caddy my Godaddy API Key when starting and I don’t know how to do that with that service…

So then I created a script to run caddy:

#!/bin/bash
cd /usr/local/bin
ulimit -n 8192
exec nohup sudo GODADDY_API_KEY=dLddddddd GODADDY_API_SECRET=8Gxxxxxxxxx caddy -log caddylog.log &

The script itself works! I just have to type sudo bash /usr/local/bin/startcaddy.sh and it is up and running.

But then I tried to run it at startup… And none of those methods worked:

  • call it via /etc/rc.local
  • create my own caddy.service in /etc/init.d which then calls the script
  • create another script in /etc/init which calls the script
  • trying to modify the original caddy.service to start my script
  • creating a cronjob with @reboot paramter
  • creating a cronjob which runs every 5 minutes

I am seriously out of ideas… And I am also kind of pissed rn… I did put so much time already into setting up caddy and at every personal milestone I run into problems… Am I this dumb?

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What sort of errors are you getting?
Whats your output from teh script?
Whats the contents of the caddylog.log file

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That API key is being passed to caddy as an environment variable. You should be able to add another Environment parameter in caddy.service, like the existing CADDYPATH one.

e.g.
Environment=GODADDY_API_KEY=dLddddddd
Environment=GODADDY_API_SECRET=8Gxxxxxxxxx

4

ok this then sounds easy…

should it look like this:

Environment=GODADDY_API_KEY=dLddddddd
Environment=GODADDY_API_SECRET=8Gxxxxxxxxx

?

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Put those below the existing Environment line in caddy.service.

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