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The post discusses the process of replacing an Nginx server with Axum, a Rust library for writing web services. The author shares code examples and explanations on how to handle tasks such as creating basic web services, serving static files, managing multiple subdomains, and setting up reverse proxying. Additionally, the post covers securing services with basic authentication and setting up TLS using rustls_acme. The author acknowledges that while this setup might be more complex than Nginx, it offers the advantage of leveraging Rust's full capabilities.

Replacing nginx with axum

Two static sites with different subdomains

<p>This is called flexing, Bro RUST is so hard, specially variable lifetimes.</p>


<p>The issue is that the config lives as code and therefore I call it a bad practice. I ditched Nginx with Caddy and it supports HTTPS out of the box by requesting the cert directly from LetsEncrypt.</p>
