Stripping the URL suffix lead to a blank screen

francislavoie · February 2, 2021, 4:46pm

SoXX:

    labels:
      - traefik.enable=true
      # HTTPS
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_ssl_caddy.rule=Host(`fenpa.ws`)
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_ssl_caddy.entrypoints=websecure
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_ssl_caddy.tls.certresolver=letsencrypt
      - traefik.http.services.fenpaws_caddy.loadbalancer.server.port=80
      # HTTP
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_caddy.rule=Host(`fenpa.ws`)
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_caddy.entrypoints=web
      - traefik.http.middlewares.redirect-to-https.redirectscheme.scheme=https
      - traefik.http.routers.fenpaws_caddy.middlewares=redirect-to-https

I’m confused, are you using Traefik in front of Caddy?

You could just replace Traefik entirely with Caddy, instead. This plugin will let you configure Caddy using docker labels:

So, you’re actually doing this in the wrong direction – what you want to do is if a request comes in without .html, then you want to see if adding .html to the path will map to a file on disk. Directives like uri strip the prefix after Caddy gets the request, which doesn’t quite make sense.

So right now, if you get a request for /foo.html, then you’re removing the .html and looking on disk for a file called /srv/foo, which won’t exist.

You want to do the opposite, where if you get a request for /foo, you try adding .html to look on disk for /srv/foo.html, and if that exists, rewrite to that path.

This is done with the try_files directive:

try_files {path}.html

This is basically a shortcut for this equivalent config:

@try_files file {path}.html
rewrite @try_files {http.matchers.file.relative}