How To Install caddy on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install caddy
on Debian 12.
What is caddy
caddy is:
Caddy is a multi purpose web server written in Go.
Features:
- Easy configuration
- Automatic HTTPS by default
- ZeroSSL and Let’s Encrypt for public names
- Fully-managed local CA for internal names & IPs
- Can coordinate with other Caddy instances in a cluster
- Multi-issuer fallback
- HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and experimental HTTP/3 support
There are three methods to install caddy
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install caddy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install caddy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install caddy
Install caddy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install caddy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install caddy
Install caddy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install caddy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install caddy
How To Uninstall caddy on Debian 12
To uninstall only the caddy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove caddy
Uninstall caddy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall caddy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove caddy
Remove caddy Configurations and Data
To remove caddy
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge caddy
Remove caddy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove caddy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge caddy
Dependencies
caddy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install caddy
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.