NAME

       caddy-start - Starts the Caddy process in the background and then returns

SYNOPSIS

       caddy  start  [--config <path> [--adapter <name>]] [--envfile <path>] [--watch] [--pidfile
              <file>]

DESCRIPTION

       Starts the Caddy process, optionally bootstrapped  with  an  initial  config  file.   This
       command unblocks after the server starts running or fails to run.

       If --envfile is specified, an environment file with environment variables in the KEY=VALUE
       format will be loaded into the Caddy process.

       On Windows, the spawned child process will remain attached to the terminal, so closing the
       window will forcefully stop Caddy; to avoid forgetting this, try using 'caddy run' instead
       to keep it in the foreground.

OPTIONS

       --adapter
              Name of config adapter to apply

       --config
              Configuration file

       --envfile
              Environment file to load

       --pidfile
              Path of file to which to write process ID

       --watch
              Reload changed config file automatically

SEE ALSO

       caddy-adapt(1),  caddy-caddy(1),  caddy-environ(1),  caddy-file-server(1),   caddy-fmt(1),
       caddy-hash-password(1),   caddy-help(1),   caddy-list-modules(1),   caddy-man(1),   caddy-
       reload(1), caddy-reverse-proxy(1),  caddy-run(1),  caddy-stop(1),  caddy-trust(1),  caddy-
       untrust(1), caddy-validate(1), caddy-version(1), caddy(1)

DOCUMENTATION

       Full documentation is available at: https://caddyserver.com/docs/

VERSION

       2.4.5-1

BUGS

       Report Bugs to: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy

COPYRIGHT

       (c) Matthew Holt and The Caddy Authors

                                          September 2021                           CADDY-START(1)