diff --git a/deploy/Caddyfile b/deploy/Caddyfile
index 6450890..9f08cbe 100644
--- a/deploy/Caddyfile
+++ b/deploy/Caddyfile
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# deploy.sh copies this file over /etc/caddy/Caddyfile wholesale, so a vhost
+# added straight to the live file is silently lost on the next deploy. Other
+# sites on this box own a file in conf.d instead and install it themselves.
+# A glob that matches nothing is not an error, so this stays valid alone.
+import /etc/caddy/conf.d/*.caddy
+
 lichen.wiki {
 	tls {
 		dns cloudflare {env.CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN}