can i use Caddy to run a Textpattern website ?

seq · 2025-05-20 23:48:49

is it possible to use other web servers besides Nginx ?

phiw13 · 2025-05-21 01:11:44

That is probably possible, as long as you can set up something equivalent to the .htaccess file. Some people around here use Hiawatha, and IIRC Lighttpd.

Have a look at the relevant server setup documentation page if you haven’t done that already.

seq · 2025-05-21 01:21:40

thank you very much, phiw13 ! i will read that page

gaekwad · 2025-05-21 09:47:17

There are numerous ways to run Caddy with PHP, including (but not limited to):

Caddy’s php_fastcgi directive – here
PHP-FPM – here
an app server, like FrankenPHP

seq · 2025-05-21 17:26:30

thanks you for that. good to know

towndock · 2025-05-21 20:05:04

seq wrote #339725:

is it possible to use other web servers besides Nginx ?

I can’t speak for Caddy, but Textpattern runs great on LiteSpeed (and of course Apache too).

jakob · 2025-05-22 07:29:22

It would be great if you could let us know how you get on. It would be especially interesting to hear which PHP route you took and what a working CaddyFile for Textpattern would look like.

Here are two run-downs on translating apache .htaccess rules to CaddyFile from other CMSes / services (Kirby meets Caddy and ServBay). Textpattern’s .htaccess file bears similarities to those.

jakob · 2025-05-22 07:30:48

towndock wrote #339732:

Textpattern runs great on LiteSpeed (and of course Apache too).

I concur. I have a client whose host switched to Litespeed and there were no issues.

Algaris · 2025-05-22 08:42:14

I’d be interested to know how you get on as well.

I’m using Caddy on my development servers and went down the PHP-FPM route. I did look at FrankenPHP but I’m struggling to understand Docker; it’s a completely different way of working compared to my current workflow.

I love Caddy’s simplicity. Having all the Configuration in the Caddy file just makes sense to me in a way that I can understand.

I haven’t got round to trying Caddy with Textpattern (or any other CMS’) yet. I’m using it to serve plain old PHP pages at the moment.

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