It’s hardly a secret that I’ve been using Woltlab Suite Forum for many years on Guild Wars Legacy. And it looks like I set a trend with going with Woltlab, since a lot of other Guild Wars forums these days also use Woltlab (like GW2Community.de)!

But next to Woltlab Suite, I also love using Caddy - it’s a great webserver that requires minimal configuration and it enforces secure defaults. And it also completely handles certificate management and renewal, combined with great performance.

So over the last 3 years, Guild Wars Legacy has been powered on a Ubuntu server with Caddy, but the configuration was a bit ad-hoc and not quite perfect (there were issues with special characters). With the current server move, I set out to finally solve this issue.

The Caddy configuration code

So, without further ado, this is the Woltlab Suite configuration that I use for Guild Wars Legacy, which seems to work almost perfectly:

# Woltlab Suite - Rewrite Rules

# Handle static files and existing directories before rewriting
file_server

# Rule 1: Handle forum paths (but exclude existing files/dirs like acp)
@forum_rewrite {
    path_regexp ^/forum/(.*)$
    not file
    not path_regexp ^/forum/acp/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/forum/images/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/forum/js/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/forum/style/.*$
}
rewrite @forum_rewrite /forum/index.php?{http.regexp.1}&{query}

# Rule 2: Handle everything else (except actual files/dirs and special paths)
@catch_all {
    not file
    not path /
    not path_regexp ^/forum/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/acp/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/images/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/js/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/style/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/wcf/.*$
    not path_regexp ^/tmp/.*$
    path_regexp ^/(.*)$
}
rewrite @catch_all /index.php?{http.regexp.1}&{query}

I stick this part between my logging rules and just before I reference the PHP-settings (php_fastcgi).

This has been working great for me so far, should you still encounter issues with this configuration, free free to contact me so I can update it here!

• Kevin