Xcaddy/plugin help needed

[jfirestorm44 (J)]

Hello. I am trying to figure out how to use xcaddy. I am specifically interested in trying the json-schema but unfortunately I am a bit overwhelmed and confused by GitHub and how installs work from there.

So far what I have done is:
Installed Visual Studio Code
Installed Go (go version go1.14.3 windows/amd64)
DL/Installed(?) xcaddy to C:\Users\jfire\Go\src\github.com\caddyserver\xcaddy
DL/Installed(?) the json-schema to C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema

When I try to run xcaddy I get the following:

2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] Temporary folder: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0844.912429335
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] Writing main module: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0844.912429335\main.go
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] Initializing Go module
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] exec (timeout=10s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe mod init caddy
go: creating new go.mod: module caddy
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] Replace github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema => C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] exec (timeout=10s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe mod edit -replace github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema=C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] Pinning versions
2020/06/01 08:44:48 [INFO] exec (timeout=0s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe get -d -v github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2
go: github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 upgrade => v2.0.0
2020/06/01 08:44:49 [INFO] Build environment ready
2020/06/01 08:44:49 [INFO] Building Caddy
2020/06/01 08:44:49 [INFO] exec (timeout=0s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe build -o C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema\caddy -ldflags -w -s -trimpath
go: found github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema in github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
2020/06/01 08:44:54 [INFO] Build complete: ./caddy
2020/06/01 08:44:54 [INFO] Cleaning up temporary folder: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0844.912429335
2020/06/01 08:44:54 [INFO] Running [./caddy]

**2020/06/01 08:44:54 [ERROR] exec: "./caddy": file does not exist**

So I downloaded the caddy server 2.0 and threw the .exe into the same folder. Now when I run xcaddy json-schema I get:

2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] Temporary folder: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0847.315475727
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] Writing main module: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0847.315475727\main.go
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] Initializing Go module
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] exec (timeout=10s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe mod init caddy
go: creating new go.mod: module caddy
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] Replace github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema => C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] exec (timeout=10s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe mod edit -replace github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema=C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] Pinning versions
2020/06/01 08:47:04 [INFO] exec (timeout=0s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe get -d -v github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2
go: github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 upgrade => v2.0.0
2020/06/01 08:47:05 [INFO] Build environment ready
2020/06/01 08:47:05 [INFO] Building Caddy
2020/06/01 08:47:05 [INFO] exec (timeout=0s): C:\Go\bin\go.exe build -o C:\Users\jfire\Go\caddy-json-schema\caddy -ldflags -w -s -trimpath
go: found github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema in github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
2020/06/01 08:47:07 [INFO] Build complete: ./caddy
2020/06/01 08:47:07 [INFO] Cleaning up temporary folder: C:\Users\jfire\AppData\Local\Temp\buildenv_2020-06-01-0847.315475727
2020/06/01 08:47:07 [INFO] Running [./caddy json-schema]

**[ERROR] 'json-schema' is not a recognized subcommand; see 'caddy help'**
**2020/06/01 08:47:07 [ERROR] exit status 1**

I’m really confused about where these files are supposed to ‘Go’ (pun intended). I’ve never used GitHub before aside from following some tutorials and just copying and pasting into command line. I think ‘Go’ with it’s path configuration is part of my problem too.

How can I get this to work and get a vscode? What am I missing?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Did you try following the instructions on the readme? GitHub - abiosoft/caddy-json-schema: JSON schema generator for Caddy v2

What is the command you are running?

[jfirestorm44 (J)]

I tried but when I pasted it into windows cmd it ran the first line without the --with so then I did git clone https://github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema.git

I assumed that would be the same. Then I thought maybe I had to actually have Caddy installed on the windows system first so I did ‘curl -OL “https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/latest/download/caddy_2.0.0_windows_amd64.zip”’ and extracted the files.

I run Caddy on a headless RPi for my NAS and wanted to us Visual Studio Code on Windows for building a json.

Now I have all the files but just don’t know if they’re in the right place to make this work.

[matt (Matt Holt)]

I don’t know how Windows works but you might need to remove the line break then, and try again.

[jfirestorm44 (J)]

Ok so I just deleted every file/folder related to Caddy/json-schema/xcaddy. I then ran go get -u github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy/cmd/xcaddy to get xcaddy. It installed inside my PATH in the Go folder.

Now I am trying to run that command

C:\Users\jfire\Go>xcaddy build v2.0.0 \ --with github.com/abiosoft/caddy-json-schema \
2020/06/01 11:27:06 [ERROR] missing flag; caddy version already set at v2.0.0

I get an error that caddy is already set at 2.0.

Any idea if that means I just need to download the plugin? How would I run it once I have it downloaded?

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Those backslashes are to escape the newlines, so you’ll need to remove them too. (Sorry I don’t use Windows, I guess we expect people to know how to translate the bash commands into Windows shell syntax.)

[jfirestorm44 (J)]

Well that takes care of that issue…I don’t know much about command line in general and just started with Linux in April. Not I got what I believe are the desired results

C:\Users\jfire\Go\src\github.com\caddyserver\xcaddy> caddy json-schema --vscode
json-schema .vscode\caddy_schema.json written.
json-schema .vscode\settings.json written.

Now on to figuring out how to get it loaded in to VScode. Thank you!

[matt (Matt Holt)]

Great! Just put that .vscode folder in your project/workspace root.

[jfirestorm44 (J)]

I’ll give it a shot when I finish my chores…