Caddyfile

# global options
{
	admin off # theres no need for the admin api in railway's environment
	persist_config off # storage isn't persistent anyway
	auto_https off # railway handles https for us, this would cause issues if left enabled
	# runtime logs
	log {
		format json # set runtime log format to json mode 
	}
	# server options
	servers {
		trusted_proxies static private_ranges # trust railway's proxy
	}
}

# site block, listens on the $PORT environment variable, automatically assigned by railway
:{$PORT} {
	# access logs
	log {
		format json # set access log format to json mode
	}

	# health check for railway
	respond /health 200

	# serve from the 'dist' folder (Vite builds into the 'dist' folder)
	root * dist

	# enable gzipping responses
	encode gzip

	# serve files from 'dist'
	file_server

	# if path doesn't exist, redirect it to 'index.html' for client side routing
	try_files {path} /index.html
}