Comment on Looking to move from Caddy

• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Just keep in mind that HAProxy is only a proxy (technically a performance-oriented load-balancer). It’s not a web server.

  I mention it because some of us also rely on our reverse proxy to serve small static webpages for various purposes (I serve a small status page generated by a cron script, for example).

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  • Devnullit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can serve static pages by using the error page config line with monitor uri

    listen static-file bind :80 monitor-uri / errorfile 200 /usr/local/etc/haproxy/errors/200.http

    I also just use acme certbot (setup via puppet letsencrypt module) to do the certs and there’s a restart haproxy post script on cert update

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    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would argue that’s a bit of a perversion 😃 but on the other hand if it can serve my static page… I’ll have to reconsider HAProxy for my stuff. Thanks!

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      • Devnullit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Haha I get it, something something doing it because we could,… But never ask if we should. But it’s a fun trick with haproxys features, you could probably also do something with acls and or lua too if you wanted to be fancy

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  • confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I also make use of Caddy’s built in file server to serve static pages so this is good to know about HAProxy

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