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0 pointsreactordev2y ago0 comments

LLMs baby! Input nginx config, output caddy config. Input nginx docs, output caddy docs. Someone get on this and go to YC.

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bklyn112012y ago

You're absolutely right. I'm going to do this today.

It's clear from this thread that a) Nginx open source will not proceed at its previous pace, b) the forks are for Russia and not for western companies, and c) Caddy seems like absolutely the most sane and responsive place to move.

francislavoie2y ago

LLMs do a horrendous job with Caddy config as it stands. It doesn't know how to differentiate Caddy v0/1 config from v2 config, so it hallucinates all kinds of completely invalid config. We've seen an uptick of people coming for support on the forums with configs that don't make any sense.

eropple2y ago

For just blasting a config out, I'm sure there are tons of problems. But (and I have not been to your forums, because...the project just works for me, it's great!) I've had a lot of success having GPT4 do the first-pass translation from nginx to Caddy. It's not perfect, but I do also know how to write a Caddyfile myself, I'm just getting myself out of the line-by-line business.

m_sahaf2y ago

You could've used the nginx-adapter and skip the faulty LLMs

https://github.com/caddyserver/nginx-adapter

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