Akshay: create page with common use cases

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Caddy is a server software (like nginx, apache) that has automatic provisioning of https certificates built-in. It is used on several FSCI servers.

== Links ==

* [https://caddyserver.com/ Quick start] (scroll down on the official homepage for quickstart)
* [https://caddyserver.com/docs/ Documentation]

== Features ==

* Useful default values (for example, php_fastcgi directive by default redirects requests to index.php, reverse_proxy directive by default sets X-Forwarded-* headers, file_server directive by default enforces canonical URLs, etc)
* Automatically generates and rotates TLS certificates (using Let's Encrypt)

== Common configurations ==

=== PHP sites ===
<syntaxhighlight>
example.com {
root /var/www/example.com
php_fastcgi unix//var/run/php/php-fpm.sock
file_server
}
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Reverse Proxy ===
<syntaxhighlight>
example.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:8080
}
</syntaxhighlight>

=== Simple HTML with logging to file ===
<syntaxhighlight>
example.com {
root /var/www/example.com
file_server
log {
output file /var/log/caddy/example.com
}
}
</syntaxhighlight>

== Typical workflow ==

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
# edit the configuration
sudo -e /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

# ask caddy to reload configuration
sudo systemctl reload caddy

# check status and logs
sudo systemctl status caddy
sudo journalctl -u caddy
</syntaxhighlight>

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