caddy.service start request repeated too quickly

Question

I\'m using systemd to start a caddy webserver on an ubuntu 16.04 machine. Whenever I run sudo service caddy start and service caddy status, I get this

Answer 1

For anyone else pulling their hair out, note the lines StartLimitInterval and StartLimitBurst in the caddy.service file - if you're testing and repeatedly stop / starting you will hit the StartLimitBurst limit. Need to increase it to lots, or change the StartLimitInterval, to allow this.