caddy-markdown-site

This project is a proof of concept showing how you can serve Markdown files as reasonably good-looking minimal web pages with just the Caddy web server. It is not a static site generator; there is no build step. The project consists of a Caddy configuration file (Caddyfile), HTML templates, and CSS files. You will need some knowledge of Caddy to use and customize the project. Expect a lot of work, and possibly insurmountable barriers, if you decide to adapt it for anything but a simple website.

Screenshot

Requirements

• Caddy 2.4 or later.
• Optional:
  • Deno 1.31 or later to run the tests (just test).
  • entr for development (just dev).
  • just to run the tasks.

Features

• If your page file is demo/foo.md and your domain example.com, you will be able to access the file as example.com/foo with no extension and example.com/foo.md.
• index.md serves as the directory index (but index.html takes priority).
• You can customize the look of your site without touching the main template. Edit templates/{head,header,footer}.html to do it. head.html links to the style sheets.
• An error page is shown on error.

Front matter

Markdown page files can include Caddy template front matter in JSON, TOML, or YAML. The front matter sets variables that configure how a page is presented.

The following variables are recognized:

• lang: the lang HTML global attribute. If not specified, defaults to an empty string.
• text_dir: the dir HTML global attribute. Defaults to auto.
• title: The page title. Defaults to the request path.

Example

---
lang: en
title: Greeting
---
Hello, world!

License

MIT.

index.html derives from the index.html template used on the Caddy website.

axist.css is axist, a classless CSS stylesheet.

photo.jpg is by Siarhei Plashchynski on Unsplash.

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