Recently it’s come to my attention that Caddy has an AI sponsor so I have been looking at moving away from Caddy.

I’m currently looking for another reverse proxy to use in place of Caddy. For TLS I am looking into using CertBot and it appears there’s a module (https://github.com/desec-io/certbot-dns-desec) I can use that works for https://desec.io/ to handle my certs.

I have two questions, the first is about CertBot. Since Caddy is handling my certs automatically, how often would I want to renew my certs? Desec.io has this command to obtain a cert:

certbot certonly \
     --authenticator dns-desec \
     --dns-desec-credentials /etc/letsencrypt/secrets/$DOMAIN.ini \
     -d "$DOMAIN" \
     -d "*.$DOMAIN"

Would I be required to run the same command periodically to renew my cert?

My second question is a bit more open ended. I am looking to hear any suggestions or experiences about different reverse proxies that are preferably free of AI. There is a list here with some suggested alternatives: https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#web-servers

  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    23 hours 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).

    • >/dev/null@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      5 hours 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

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 hours 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!

        • >/dev/null@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 hour 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