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CaddyUI

A modern, self-hosted web UI for Caddy — manage proxy hosts, redirections, SSL certificates, and advanced routes through a clean interface, without touching config files.

CaddyUI is an open-source web servers project on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 license (permissive), with 286 stars. It is built with Go. Its last push was 2 days ago.

Stars
286
License
Apache-2.0
Activity
Active
Latest release
v2.68.6

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
A self-hosted web interface for the Caddy server to manage proxy hosts, redirects, SSL certificates, DNS providers and advanced routes without editing config files. It ships as multi-arch Docker images and has a REST API.
Adopt it when
You run Caddy as a reverse proxy for several services and want a Nginx Proxy Manager style interface for it.
Watch out
It is a single-maintainer project under eight months old that holds your proxy and certificate configuration.
Ready for
Usable
Runs as
Self-hosted server
Built with
Go, Caddy and Docker
How established
Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v2.68.6.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Go

Follow it down: CaddyUI → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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