starting caddy server from within the code as an external application with specified configuration

start_caddy_with_basicauth.go

func TestBrowseMiddlewareForHtmlResponse(t *testing.T) {
	//formulating configuration for starting Caddy.
	//The configuration below is used defualt host <localhost> and default port <2015> for running the server
	//browse middleware is activated
	input := caddy.CaddyfileInput{
		Contents: []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s\nbasicauth /protected my-username my-passworde ", caddy.DefaultHost, "2015")),
	}
	//starting caddy server
	err := caddy.Start(input)

	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("Error starting caddy: %v", err)
	}
}