Setting up caddy server for wordpress

Caddy is a another alternative to Apache or nginx. For me the biggest advantage is that it’s only one binary file to work with. It’s easy to run, setup and just “works”. It’s super modern – handles HTTP2 and automatic HTTPS encryption using let’s encrypt certificates. Obviously it has plenty of other features but we focus only on speed of deployment.

All you need to run Caddy is just to download binary file, and create file called Caddyfile and then paste this file:

localhost:80
root /var/www/html
gzip
log /var/log/access.log
errors /var/log/error.log
fastcgi / 127.0.0.1:9000 php
rewrite {
    if {path} not_match ^\/wp-admin
    to {path} {path}/ /index.php?_url={uri}
}

If you are looking for more examples of redirects, please check out this Caddy redirect wiki page