Proxy issue - Parse error: Unknown directive 'transparent'

[khromov (Stanislav Khromov)]

I’m trying to set up a transparent caddy proxy that load balances across 4 backends.

But, it feels like the proxy middleware isn’t loaded or something, I get these errors:
Parse error: Unknown directive ‘transparent’
Parse error: Unknown directive ‘policy’

Here is the Caddyfile:

proxy / localhost:8080 localhost:8081 localhost:8082 localhost:8083 {
  tls off
  transparent
  policy round_robin
}

I downloaded the standard Caddy build from the website, no extra options checked.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

The first line of the Caddyfile is always the address of the site to serve: The Caddyfile — Caddy Documentation

tls off does not go in the proxy directive, it must go outside.

That should help.

[khromov (Stanislav Khromov)]

That did the trick. Thanks for the fast answer and sorry for not RTFM.