Caddy is a lightweight, yet powerful web server that is easy to set up and use. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Caddy on macOS.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed in your system:
Open the Terminal application, which can be found in Applications/Utilities. Run the following command:
brew install caddy
This will install Caddy and its dependencies.
To verify that the installation was successful, run the following command:
caddy version
This should output the current version of Caddy installed on your system.
To test that Caddy is working properly, create a new file called index.html
in a directory that you want to serve. For example:
mkdir ~/caddy-test
cd ~/caddy-test
echo "Hello, world!" > index.html
Now, create a new file called Caddyfile
in the directory that you just created, with the following contents:
localhost:8080 {
root * /path/to/your/directory
file_server
}
Replace /path/to/your/directory
with the path to the directory where you created the index.html
file.
Save the Caddyfile
.
Now start Caddy by running the following command:
caddy run
You should see some logs indicating that Caddy is starting up.
Once it is started, open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8080
. You should see the message "Hello, world!" displayed in your browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and test Caddy on macOS. You can now use it to serve your web applications or websites.
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