[Unit] Description=Caddy HTTP/2 web server Documentation=https://caddyserver.com/docs After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target systemd-networkd-wait-online.service [Service] Restart=on-failure ; User and group the process will run as. User=www-data Group=www-data ; Letsencrypt-issued certificates will be written to this directory. Environment=HOME=/etc/ssl/caddy ; Always set "-root" to something safe in case it gets forgotten in the Caddyfile. ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/caddy -log stdout -agree=true -conf=/etc/caddy/Caddyfile -root=/var/tmp ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID ; Limit the number of file descriptors; see `man systemd.exec` for more limit settings. LimitNOFILE=1048576 ; Unmodified caddy is not expected to use more than that. LimitNPROC=64 ; Use private /tmp and /var/tmp, which are discarded after caddy stops. PrivateTmp=true ; Use a minimal /dev PrivateDevices=true ; Hide /home, /root, and /run/user. Nobody will steal your SSH-keys. ProtectHome=true ; Make /usr, /boot, /etc and possibly some more folders read-only. ProtectSystem=full ; … except /etc/ssl/caddy, because we want Letsencrypt-certificates there. ; This merely retains r/w access rights, it does not add any new. Must still be writable on the host! ReadWriteDirectories=/etc/ssl/caddy ; Drop all other capabilities. Important if you run caddy as privileged user (which you should not). CapabilityBoundingSet=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE ; … but permit caddy to open ports reserved for system services. ; This could be redundant here, but is needed in case caddy runs as nobody:nogroup. AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE ; … and prevent gaining any new privileges. NoNewPrivileges=true ; Caveat: Some plugins need additional capabilities. Add them to both above lines. ; - plugin "upload" needs: CAP_LEASE [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target