Remote index.html

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Hi guys, I am trying to get my Caddy running using a remote index.html. The objective is to bind this file with my localhost. Let’s admit that the index.html I want to use (and all the files relatives to it), I want Caddy to use this file as it’s index.html

I have the following Caddyfile

localhost:2020

And I run Caddy using the command
./caddy -conf="192.168.100.82:9000/index.html
When I type this address on my browser I can successfully access the website but when I run Caddy all I got is
404 not found

Any advice ? Am I doing it wrong ?
Thanks, Alexi

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Hey Alexi, it looks like you’re trying to load the Caddyfile over the network - Caddy doesn’t currently support that. That might be a bug, I’ll have to look into this. We changed how the Caddyfile gets loaded in 0.9 so it’s probably something in the design about error reporting…

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Thanks for the reply Matt ! The Caddyfile is on my computer, but indeed, I would like to get the index.html and all the related stuff to be either copied on my computer or at least using those file (download is not mandatory)

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If you want to serve files on a remote machine, that’s called proxying. You can use the proxy directive but the Caddyfile specifying that directive has to be local.

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I will look at the proxy and keep you in touch, thanks

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Indeed the proxy directive was the correct solution.
I used
localhost:2020
proxy / 192.168.100.82:9000

Thanks Matt, good luck for the project, already so useful.
Best Regards

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