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How to install and configure Caddy, a modern web server, running as a service on CentOS 6.8. You will also obtain a free SSL-Certificate for a website automatically.

This is in-depth guide how to install a modern web server named Caddy as service, that running from regular unprivileged user. You will also obtain a Free SSL-Certificate for a Website automatically.

Why Caddy?

Apache and Nginx are the two most common web servers in the world. Apache is a classical solution, but due to it's memory consumption (because to it's nature of creating a new process for each request) we will leave it for another occasion. Nginx is very fast and the RAM consumption is very-very low, if we need to serve static pages. But Nginx's configuration is not to easy read and understand, this is why we will try more flexible and clear solution, which is more intended for newbies.

Caddy is written is Go, open-source and pretty fast web server. If you're looking for low-memory solution the Cadd

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a.myhost.com {
  tls off
  root /var/www/
  proxy / localhost:8091
  log log/access.a.log
}

b.myhost.com {
  tls off
  root /var/www/

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# Caddyfile

localhost:2015 {
	startup "go run ./server.go" &
	root ./static_files
	proxy / localhost:2016
}

# FILE TREE
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