Installing Caddy on macOS

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.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed in your system:

Step 1: Install Caddy

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.

Step 2: Verify the installation

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.

Step 3: Test Caddy

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.

Conclusion

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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