Caddy init.d file for CentOS 6

caddy

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          caddy
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $network $named $time $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the caddy web server
# Description:       starts caddy using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO

# Original Author: Frédéric Galusik (fredg)
# Maintainer: Daniel van Dorp (djvdorp)
# Modified by: Mono Bilişim (monobilisim)
## yum install -y daemonize

DESC="the caddy web server"
NAME=caddy
DAEMON=$(which caddy)

DAEMONUSER=webapps
EMAIL=root@localhost
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/$NAME
LOGFILE=/var/log/caddy/$NAME.log
CONFIGFILE=/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
DAEMONOPTS="-agree=true -email=$EMAIL -pidfile=$PIDFILE -log=$LOGFILE -conf=$CONFIGFILE"

USERBIND="setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep"
STOP_SCHEDULE="${STOP_SCHEDULE:-QUIT/5/TERM/5/KILL/5}"

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# Set the CADDYPATH; Let's Encrypt certificates will be written to this directory.
export CADDYPATH=/etc/caddy/ssl

# Set the ulimits
ulimit -n 8192

start() {
        $USERBIND $DAEMON
        daemonize -p $PIDFILE -l $LOCKFILE $DAEMON $DAEMONOPTS
}

stop() {
        kill -9 $(cat "$PIDFILE")
        rm -f $PIDFILE $LOCKFILE
}

status() {
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
        if kill -0 $(cat "$PIDFILE"); then
            echo "$NAME is running"
        else
            echo "$NAME process is dead, but pidfile exists"
        fi
    else
        echo "$NAME is not running"
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Starting $NAME"
        start
    ;;
    stop)
        echo "Stopping $NAME"
        stop
    ;;
    restart)
        echo "Restarting $NAME"
        stop
        start
    ;;
    status)
        status
    ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 2
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Hi, Thanks for sharing. Well done!
I've forked and modified to run caddy from unprivileged (regular) user.
Maybe it helps somebody.