Self Host 101 - Run Multiple Apps with Caddy | DNS, Static Sites, Reverse Proxies and Let's Encrypt

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In this video CJ shows you how to setup DNS records for domains and subdomains with Cloudflare and how to set up, configure and host multiple types of applications with Caddy Server. Watch the 1st video on setting up a VPS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Y_g0wMwww Watch the 2nd video where CJ answers your questions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9kmBnwX54 View all the Self Host 101 videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnpHn493BHHAxTeLNUZEDLYc8uUwqGXa 00:00 Intro 00:56 Domain Purchase and DNS Setup 02:43 Creating DNS Records 04:32 Query DNS Records with dig 07:50 www subdomain record, CNAME records and TEXT records 10:19 Email forwarding and a catch-all address 11:23 DNS Resources 12:13 SSH to your VPS with a Domain Name 13:08 Responding to HTTP Requests from our Server 16:27 Web Server Software 18:12 Why do we need a Web Server? 19:05 How To Navigate The Caddy Docs 21:32 Caddy Architecture / reloading configuration 22:35 Install Caddy 24:17 Set up https for the root domain 25:39 Redirect IP to the root domain 27:21 Multiple Caddyfile Setup 31:41 Redirect www subdomain to root domain 34:15 Set up /var/www folder 39:05 Transfer files to the server with scp 40:35 Sync a folder with rsync 42:31 Clone a public git repo 44:44 Hide files from Caddy file_server 46:08 handle_errors in the Caddyfile 47:46 Clone private git repos with an SSH deploy key 52:16 Install node.js with nvm 54:03 Set up Holidays API Example 56:37 Create a reverse_proxy with Caddy 1:00:45 Manage long running processes with pm2 1:04:07 Run a TypeScript node.js API 1:09:52 Run a static website that has a build process 1:14:44 Caddyfile concepts and Logging 1:17:12 Common Caddyfile patterns including SPA redirects 1:18:15 Thanks! DNS on Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System Cloudflare DNS - https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/dns/ dig (command) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command) Cloudflare Email Routing - https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/email-routing/ How DNS Works Zine - https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/ Mess with DNS - https://messwithdns.net/ a simple DNS lookup tool - https://dns-lookup.jvns.ca/ netcat - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat Comparison of web server software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software Apache HTTP - https://httpd.apache.org/ nginx - https://nginx.org/en/ traefik proxy - https://traefik.io/traefik/ Caddy Server - https://caddyserver.com/ Listen to Syntax Episode 340 - https://syntax.fm/show/340/servers-with-matt-from-caddy Caddyfile Reference - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile Caddy Architecture - https://caddyserver.com/docs/architecture Keep Caddy Running - https://caddyserver.com/docs/running#using-the-service Install Caddy - https://caddyserver.com/docs/install Caddyfile root - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/root Caddyfile file_server - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/file_server Caddyfile redir - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/redir Caddyfile Common Patterns redirect www - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#redirect-www-subdomain ln (command) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ln_(Unix) chown command - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown Caddyfile file_server hide - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/file_server#hide Caddyfile handle_errors - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/handle_errors Generate an SSH key - https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent Github deploy keys - https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/managing-deploy-keys#deploy-keys Node Version Manager - https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm Caddyfile reverse_proxy - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/reverse_proxy Run node.js with systemd - https://nodesource.com/blog/running-your-node-js-app-with-systemd-part-1/ pm2 - https://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/pm2-doc-single-page/ Caddyfile concepts - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts How logging works in Caddy - https://caddyserver.com/docs/logging Caddyfile SPA redirect - https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#single-page-apps-spas Example sites: notlocalhost.net - https://github.com/w3cj/notlocalhost.net/ Holidays API - https://github.com/codinggarden/holidays Express API Starter TS - https://github.com/w3cj/express-api-starter-ts Big Timer - https://github.com/CodingGarden/react-big-timer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! https://www.syntax.fm/links Brought to you by Sentry - Use code "tastytreats" to get 2 months free - https://sentry.io/syntax #vps #webdevelopment #selfhosted