I recently set up HA proxy on one of my Debian 6 (squeeze) servers.
There were a few rather annoying ‘gotchas’ that took a while to figure out, so I’m documenting them in case I ever have to set up HAproxy again.
The basic install was done using apt-get install haproxy
This does create all the init scripts needed, but rather annoyingly they won’t work until you change the config file /etc/default/haproxy and change the ENABLED variable to ENABLED=1
Next up is logging. Haproxy logs via rsyslog, which needs to be configured.
First, create a folder to hold the logfiles: mkdir /var/log/haproxy
In the haproxy config, we’ll tell it to log to local0, add to /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:
global<br /> log /dev/log local0 info<br /> log /dev/log local0 notice<br />
(see below for a full example of haproxy.cfg)
Next, we will configure rsyslog to catch the logs and write to the log files. Thanks to debuntu.org for this information.
Create a file /etc/rsyslog.d/haproxy.conf and insert the following code into it:
if ($programname == 'haproxy' and $syslogseverity-text == 'info') then -/var/log/haproxy/haproxy-info.log<br /> & ~<br /> if ($programname == 'haproxy' and $syslogseverity-text == 'notice') then -/var/log/haproxy/haproxy-notice.log<br /> & ~
Now we’ll configure logrotate to keep our logfiles in some kind of order. create a file /etc/logrotate.d/haproxy and insert the following code into it:
/var/log/haproxy/*.log {<br /> weekly<br /> missingok<br /> rotate 7<br /> compress<br /> delaycompress<br /> notifempty<br /> create 640 root adm<br /> sharedscripts<br /> postrotate<br /> /etc/init.d/haproxy reload > /dev/null<br /> endscript<br /> }
This will keep seven weeks of logs.
And finally we can configure the load balancer itself. This is really specific to your requirements, so the official documentation is a good place to start here. However, a very simple example is shown below.
`
Listen on port 80 and rout all traffic to localhost port 20002 except the usl is /echo/ then route to port 20001`
global<br /> log /dev/log local0 info<br /> log /dev/log local0 notice<br /> maxconn 4096<br /> user haproxy<br /> group haproxy<br /> daemon
defaults<br /> log global<br /> mode http<br /> option httplog<br /> option dontlognull<br /> retries 3<br /> option redispatch<br /> maxconn 2000<br /> contimeout 5000<br /> clitimeout 50000<br /> srvtimeout 50000
backend hello
server hellosvr 127.0.0.1:20002
backend echo
server echosvr 127.0.0.1:20001
frontend http_in
bind *:80
default_backend hello
acl rec_echo path_beg /echo/
use_backend echo if rec_echo
errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http<br /> errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http<br /> errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http<br /> errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http<br /> errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http<br /> errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http<br /> errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http<br />