Caddy | Is HTTP required?

[Comply7199]

Hi, 

I migrated to Jellyfin from Plex yesterday and it appears to be working - but this is the first time I've used Caddy. 

Does Caddy require inbound port forwards for both port 80 and 443? 

I followed a YouTube video which showed both ports being forwarded. I only created a rule for 443 because I assumed that's all that's required to get 'secure remote access' running. 

I can, however, see references to http in the Caddy console. 

2025/05/03 18:51:25.952 WARN  http.handlers.reverse_proxy    aborting with incomplete response      {"upstream": "127.0.0.1:8096", "duration": 0.0030193, "request": {"remote_ip": "x.x.x.x", "remote_port": "50446", "client_ip": "x.x.x.x", "proto": "HTTP/1.1", "method": "GET", "host": "randomstring.duckdns.org", "uri": "/Videos/9dc1a69c9f98ea6b36d1f552895ad694/stream?minSegments=6&tag=8656623cda2d2de59a842d7c638017fd&static=true&playSessionId=abb32bc542c54a5aa3fc75bbbdc5509d&mediaSourceId=9dc1a69c9f98ea6b36d1f552895ad694", "headers": {"User-Agent": ["VLC/3.0.18 LibVLC/3.0.18"], "Accept": ["*/*"], "X-Forwarded-For": ["x.x.x.x"], "X-Forwarded-Proto": ["https"], "X-Forwarded-Host": ["randomstring.duckdns.org"], "Via": ["1.1 Caddy"], "If-Unmodified-Since": ["Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:59:52 GMT"], "Range": ["bytes=4711178-"], "Accept-Language": ["en_US"]}, "tls": {"resumed": false, "version": 771, "cipher_suite": 49195, "proto": "", "server_name": "randomstring.duckdns.org"}}, "error": "writing: write tcp 192.168.0.222:443->x.x.x.x:50446: wsasend: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host."}

Remote access appears to be working with just 443 forwarded to my Jellyfin server / Caddy instance. 

Does anybody have any advice?

[Generator]

Don't follow YouTube guides they can be quickly outdated, instead look at the docs

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-i...king/caddy

Also don't post logs that contain access tokens, that can be used to login into your Jellyfin system.

By the logs looks like it's using HTTPS, im not familiar with caddy, you're trying to connect with VLC?!