caddy-stop(8)

caddy-stop8

Gracefully stops a started caddy process

Usage

caddy stop [flags]

Overview

Stops the background Caddy process as gracefully as possible.

It requires that the admin API is enabled and accessible, since it will use the API's /stop endpoint. The address of this request can be customized using the --address flag, or from the given --config, if not the default.

Options

--adapter=""
Name of config adapter to apply (when --config is used)

--address=""
The address to use to reach the admin API endpoint, if not the default

--config=""
Configuration file to use to parse the admin address, if --address is not used

-h, --help[=false]
help for stop

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12
  2. 13

History

10-Aug-2026 Auto generated by spf13/cobra

From caddy 2.6.2-12+deb13u1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.