1. The problem I’m having:
I am moving a basic PHP site from Apache to Caddy. I had the following .htaccess file in a directory:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^example1\.json$ /app/v1/example1/index.php [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^example2\.json$ /app/v1/example2/index.php [NC,L]
I cannot figure out how this can be translated into a Caddyfile.
If I understand the rewrite correctly, it is basically rewriting these 2 .json files to separate index.php files so that end users can point to the .json but get the output of the .php files. There’s probably a better way of doing this, but this is the PHP application I’m working with currently.
2. Error messages and/or full log output:
No error message because Caddy is working. I just don’t know the correct incantation to get the rewrite to work in Caddy.
3. Caddy version:
v2.6.4 h1:2hwYqiRwk1tf3VruhMpLcYTg+11fCdr8S3jhNAdnPy8=
With the Cloudflare DNS module.
4. How I installed and ran Caddy:
I used the following Dockerfile to create the Caddy image:
FROM caddy:2.6.4-builder-alpine AS build
RUN XCADDY_SKIP_CLEANUP=0 xcaddy build --with github.com/caddy-dns/cloudflare
FROM caddy:2.6.4-alpine AS final
COPY --from=build /usr/bin/caddy /usr/bin/caddy
a. System environment:
- Linode with Fedora 37 image—all software and security updates installed
- AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
- Podman: v4.4.2 w/ Go v1.19.6 for OS/Arch linux/amd64
b. Command:
I use Github actions to automatically build and tag my Docker images. This is the Github Action to build the image:
name: Docker Image
on:
push:
branches:
- main
- seed
tags:
- v*
pull_request:
env:
IMAGE_NAME: caddy-cf
jobs:
push:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
packages: write
contents: read
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Build image
run: docker build . --file Dockerfile --tag $IMAGE_NAME --label "runnumber=${GITHUB_RUN_ID}"
- name: Log in to registry
run: echo "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}" | docker login ghcr.io -u $ --password-stdin
- name: Push image
run: |
IMAGE_ID=ghcr.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/$IMAGE_NAME
IMAGE_ID=$(echo $IMAGE_ID | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
VERSION=$(echo "${{ github.ref }}" | sed -e 's,.*/\(.*\),\1,')
[[ "${{ github.ref }}" == "refs/tags/"* ]] && VERSION=$(echo $VERSION | sed -e 's/^v//')
[ "$VERSION" == "main" ] && VERSION=latest
echo IMAGE_ID=$IMAGE_ID
echo VERSION=$VERSION
docker tag $IMAGE_NAME $IMAGE_ID:$VERSION
docker push $IMAGE_ID:$VERSION
This builds the image and then I pull and create a container. It runs great. Just curious about the file size differential.
podman pull ghcr.io/jaredhowland/caddy-cf:2.6.4
# Run with the following command:
caddy run --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile --adapter caddyfile
c. Service/unit/compose file:
Included above.
d. My complete Caddy config:
# The Caddyfile is an easy way to configure your Caddy web server.
#
# Unless the file starts with a global options block, the first
# uncommented line is always the address of your site.
#
# To use your own domain name (with automatic HTTPS), first make
# sure your domain's A/AAAA DNS records are properly pointed to
# this machine's public IP, then replace ":80" below with your
# domain name.
###########################################
## TEMPLATE ###############################
###########################################
(tls) {
tls email@example.com {
dns cloudflare {env.CF_API_TOKEN}
}
}
(website) {
root * /var/www/html/{args.0}/public_html
# Compress files
encode zstd gzip
# Enable the static file server.
file_server
# Serve a PHP site through php-fpm:
php_fastcgi php:9000 {
try_files {path} {path}/index.php =404
}
# Use a Caddy template to handle all errors
handle_errors {
rewrite * /error.html
templates
file_server
}
}
###########################################
## GET CERTIFICATES #######################
###########################################
*.obscure.cc {
import tls
}
###########################################
## OBSCURE.CC #############################
###########################################
obscure.cc {
import tls
import website "obscure.cc"
}
lib.obscure.cc {
import website "obscure.cc/lib.obscure.cc"
# SOME KIND OF REWRITE NEEDS TO HAPPEN HERE
}