Reverse Proxy and Automatic SSL for Free with Open Source Caddy!

Caddy is an Open Source program that provides automatic SSL certificate management, web serving, and even reverse proxy. In one simple binary.

In this video I show you how to install Caddy from scratch, configure it to serve a secure webpage, and then set up a secure reverse proxy to expose internal programs without worrying about setting up SSL certificates at all!

0:00 Why you need Caddy
0:27 What is a reverse proxy?
1:12 What does Caddy do?
1:39 Installing Caddy
2:35 Enabling SSL
3:59 Setting up a reverse proxy
5:47 Next steps
6:56 BLOOPERS

[mecamon]

Dear lord! This is a life savior web server. Came to this video after spending like 4 hours trying to set up SSL with Nginx.

[abdirahmann]

🤣🤣 The bloopers... am dead!! and btw... i use traefik as a reverse proxy just because it was the first i learnt how to use when i was playing with my little homelab. though such a steap learning curve. i love it because of its technicalities, i am SHOCKED by how simple caddy is!!, just wOw!. Thanks for the video.

[Pearlygatesbouncer]

I have absolutely no idea how I got here or what is going on

[GameON-Playstation]

Short, easy to follow and straight to the point. Good job

[siavongaboy]

Thank you for explaining everything so simply and with great energy! This video is extremely under viewed and under liked.
I will set up caddy in Docker and keep it simple, I got to deep into technical setups with rancher, kubernettes and traefik but this looks much easier and more in line with my needs.

[joegessner]

Had been trying to set up Caddy in docker for a while with Duckdns and the challenges always failed. I used your video as guide and was finally able to get it working outside of docker. Only issue I had was it was trying to connect to my router instead of the docker container, I added :443 to the domain name in the caddy file and was finally able to reach the container. Much thanks sir.

[Lightcode]

easy to fallow! thank you so much for the content you provide !!! :)

[MichaelSharpTechniSmart]

Wow, I have been missing out. Now 'm subscribed!

[jame_sta]

You have any more videos on Caddy 2?
Subbed and liked :)

[belaircomputerguyllc]

Absolutely excellent channel. SOLID and CLEAR explanations. Are you still using Caddy?

[m_]

Hello,
Caddy does everything under the hood,
Can you give some general idea how can I do the same with nginx.

[bala-stcj]

Thank you so much, What a man.you made me a caddy lover

[adamsuail]

How come I never saw you before 😂, more of those vids please 🙏

[nicksgarage]

this is great. i got some esxi vm's that have some websites that run lots of compute i need to serve and i aint gonna be paying aws an arm and a leg.

[dragon]

What is the difference with traefik and nginx proxy manager ?

[NyneIX]

If I already enabled remote access for Plex, will Caddy interfere with this? 🤔

Excellent video, by the way!

[Clone]

Thank you very much. This is very helpful.

Amazing content. As a follow up, maybe you could guide us through an example of more than one reverse proxy!

[tunlinaung]

You are the best teacher for me thanks

[vikramkumar]

Hi sir wonderful video 👌 ..I like this and also expecting more tips like this on your channel👑