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brew install caddy v2.11.4 Apache-2.0

Go web server with automatic HTTPS, reverse proxying, and dynamic configuration.

Why you might care

Caddy simplifies TLS certificate management via automatic Let's Encrypt integration and renewal, making it ideal for quick deployments without manual cert handling. It excels as a reverse proxy and load balancer with a clean configuration syntax, and handles many tasks nginx or Apache require plugins for. Single binary, no external dependencies.

Categories

web-server proxy

Alternatives

nginx Apache Traefik HAProxy
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26.5k
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61.3k
365-day · #578

Build dependencies

go

Links

Caveats

When running the provided service, caddy's data dir will be set as
  `$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/lib`
  instead of the default location found at https://caddyserver.com/docs/conventions#data-directory

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