I'm new to Caddy server but their website looked promising. I want to use it as a reverse proxy for the websites that are hosted on other servers. So, I have 2 websites; a Wiki and a photo gallery, that needs to be hosted outside of my local network.
My Caddyfile is pretty straight forward:
coppery.<my domain name> {
proxy / http://192.168.1.66:80 {
transparent
}
}
wiki.<my domain name> {
proxy / http://192.168.1.88:8080 {
transparent
}
}
When I first started caddy I saw some HTTPS stuff with lets encrypt but that was succesful so now when I start it I get this output:
root@caddy:~# caddy
Activating privacy features... done.
Serving HTTPS on port 443
https://coppery.<my domain name>
https://wiki.<my domain name>
Serving HTTP on port 80
http://coppery.<my domain name>
http://wiki.<my domain name>
WARNING: File descriptor limit 1024 is too low for production servers. At least 8192 is recommended. Fix with `ulimit -n 8192`.
I think for now I can dismiss the warning, I might solve that in the future but this is not a production environment anyway.
I configured the domain names to resolve to my IP address (this already worked) and when I ping the domain names, they resolve the IP address correctly.
When I access the IP-addresses directly from my local network it works, I get the websites I expect. So I added some configuration on my router and port forwarded port 80 and 443 to the local IP address of the machine hosting the Caddy server.
Now when I try to access coppery.<my domain name> on either HTTP or HTTPS it's not showing anything.
So my only guess is that there is something wrong with the Caddyfile configuration but it's a realy simple case and all I've done is using the examples I found online. Which don't seem to work.
So the question is: What am I missing to make this work as intended?
The problem was the DNS. Once I configured the domain names in my local host file it worked. So the configuration in my question is all correct.