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This page describes various methods for installing Caddy on your system.

Official:

Community-maintained:

Static binaries

If installing onto a production system, we recommend using our official package for your distro if available below.

  1. Obtain a Caddy binary:
  2. Install Caddy as a system service. This is strongly recommended, especially for production servers.

Place the binary in one of your $PATH (or %PATH% on Windows) directories so you can run caddy without typing the full path of the executable file. (Run echo $PATH to see the list of directories that qualify.)

You can upgrade static binaries by replacing them with newer versions and restarting Caddy. The caddy upgrade command can make this easy.

Debian, Ubuntu, Raspbian

Installing this package automatically starts and runs Caddy as a systemd service named caddy. It also comes with an optional caddy-api service which is not enabled by default, but should be used if you primarily configure Caddy via its API instead of config files.

After installing, please read the service usage instructions.

Stable releases:

sudo apt install -y debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https curl
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key' | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list
chmod o+r /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg
chmod o+r /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install caddy

Testing releases (includes betas and release candidates):

sudo apt install -y debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https curl
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/testing/gpg.key' | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-testing-archive-keyring.gpg
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/testing/debian.deb.txt' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-testing.list
chmod o+r /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-testing-archive-keyring.gpg
chmod o+r /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-testing.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install caddy

View the Cloudsmith repos

If you wish to use the packaged support files (systemd services, bash completion and default configuration) with a custom Caddy build, instructions can be found here.

Fedora, RedHat, CentOS

This package comes with both of Caddy's systemd service unit files, but does not enable them by default. Using the service is recommended. If you do, please read the service usage instructions.

Fedora:

dnf install dnf5-plugins
dnf copr enable @caddy/caddy
dnf install caddy

CentOS/RHEL:

dnf install dnf-plugins-core
dnf copr enable @caddy/caddy
dnf install caddy

View the Caddy COPR

Arch Linux, Manjaro, Parabola

This package comes with heavily modified versions of both of Caddy's systemd service unit files, but does not enable them by default. Those modifications include a custom start/stop behavior and additional sandboxing flags which are explained in systemd's exec documentation, which may lead to certain host directories not being available to the Caddy process.

pacman -Syu caddy

View Caddy in the Arch Linux repositories and the Arch Linux Wiki

Docker

docker pull caddy

View on Docker Hub

See our recommended Docker Compose configuration and usage instructions.

Gentoo

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

emerge www-servers/caddy

View Gentoo Package

Homebrew (Mac)

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

brew install caddy

View the Homebrew formula

Chocolatey (Windows)

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

choco install caddy

View the Chocolatey package

Scoop (Windows)

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

scoop install caddy

View the Scoop manifest

Webi

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

Linux and macOS:

curl -sS https://webi.sh/caddy | sh

Windows:

curl.exe https://webi.ms/caddy | powershell

You may need to adjust the Windows firewall rules to allow non-localhost incoming connections.

View on Webi

Ansible

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

ansible-galaxy install nvjacobo.caddy

View the Ansible role repository

Termux

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

pkg install caddy

View the Termux build.sh file

Nix/Nixpkgs/NixOS

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

View Caddy in the Nixpkgs search and the NixOS options search

Unikraft

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

First install Unikraft's companion tool, kraft:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://get.kraftkit.sh | sh

Then run Caddy with Unikraft using:

kraft run --rm -p 2015:2015 --plat qemu --arch x86_64 -M 256M caddy:2.7

To allow non-localhost incoming connections, you need to connect the unikernel instance to a network.

View the Unikraft application catalog and the KraftCloud platform examples (powered by Unikraft).

OPNsense

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

pkg install os-caddy

View the FreeBSD caddy-custom makefile and the os-caddy plugin source

Mise

Note: This is a community-maintained installation method.

If you are using mise, the polyglot tool versions manager, you can use a command like this to install the last version:

mise use -g caddy@latest