serveg/CADDY.md

Caddy + fail2ban

Caddy

Modern http proxy server with easy configuration.

Install log formatter plugin:

caddy add-package github.com/caddyserver/transform-encoder

Add to /etc/caddy/Caddyfile:

files.example.com { # your url
    request_body {
        max_size 4GB
    }
    reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080 { # serveg address
        transport http {
            versions 1.1
        }
    }
    # log response status and request authorization for fail2ban
    log {
		output file /var/log/caddy/files-auth.log
		format transform "{ts} {request>client_ip} {status} {request>headers>Authorization>[0]}" {
			time_format iso8601
			placeholder -
		}
	}
}

Restart caddy:

sudo systemctl restart caddy

Fail2ban

Service that reads logs from various sources, finds password trials and bans ip if it tries to brute force password.

Write to /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/caddy-auth.conf

[Definition]
failregex = <ADDR> 401 REDACTED$
ignoreregex =

Write to /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/caddy-auth.local

[caddy-auth]
enabled   = true
filter    = caddy-auth # /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/caddy-auth.conf
logpath   = /var/log/caddy/files-auth.log
backend   = auto    # without it on debian fail2ban will use systemd logging and to read caddy log
maxretry  = 10      # N wrong passwords
findtime  = 10m     # sent during 10 minutes
bantime   = 1h      # ban for 1 hour
banaction = iptables-allports   # ban the ip for all ports
protocol  = all                 # and all protocols
ignoreip  = 127.0.0.1/8 ::1     # ignore localhost

Reload fail2ban:

sudo fail2ban-client reload

Test fail2ban:

curl -s -o /dev/null -u wrong:wrong https://files.example.com/
curl -s -o /dev/null https://files.example.com/
fail2ban-regex /var/log/caddy/files-auth.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/caddy-auth.conf