Re:Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
by mholt on Monday November 23, 2020 @04:02PM
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Yeah, I feel that. I want to work on docs and knowledge-transfer a lot more in 2021. 2019 and 2020 were definitely full of sprinting to bring Caddy 2 up to par. I think in terms of major functionality it's settling down now, so docs and guides will be more feasible.
In the meantime, I always encourage anyone to contribute to our wiki: https://caddy.community/c/wiki/13 -- there's already lots of great topics there and room for plenty more, especially examples.
Hint: there's a LOT of market space for paid content to master the Caddy web server, if anyone reading this is looking to profit from their expertise...
Re:Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
by linsomniac on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:39AM
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Agreed, I almost mentioned documentation but I forgot... My use-cases are ridiculously simple, and it's definitely gotten way better in the last year, but just figuring out the syntax for putting my e-mail address in the config file and how to start the server without it asking me questions on stdin required some trial and error. Nothing major, but there just wasn't much on Google at the time.
Docs have gotten way better since. As has the install story. Before it was some scripted thing that I was never quite confident in, now it's a deb package that I feel confident in running updates and Ansible against. And honestly I have not had any problems since installing it.
I would appreciate better and consistent documentation to do more non-trivial things with Caddy, but for your basic use-cases it takes a lot of the pain away. Unfortunately, nginx and Apache still win on the (probably unfair) basis that they've got well over 10 years of history, and all of the cultural knowledge that comes with that.