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Contents 1 Installation 1.1 HAProxy Installation 2 Configuration 2.1 haproxy.cfg

Installation

$ apt-get install make 

• for gcc

$ apt-get install build-essential 

• If the following error occurs,

# Install libpcre3-dev if you get "include/common/regex.h:28:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory"

• install

$ apt-get install libpcre3-dev 

• If the following error occurs,

# libssl-dev if you get "include/types/server.h:29:25: fatal error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory"

• install

$ apt-get install libssl-dev 

• HAProxy website:

http://haproxy.1wt.eu/

HAProxy Installation

• Download HAProxy,

e.g.)

$ wget http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/devel/haproxy-1.5-dev19.tar.gz 

• Install

$ tar -zxvf haproxy-1.5-dev19.tar.gz 
$ cd haproxy-1.5-dev19 
$ make TARGET=linux2628 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 
$ make install 

• Clean all for recompilation

$ make TARGET=linux2628 USE_PCRE=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1 clean all 

• Add haproxy user

$ useradd -m haproxy -s /bin/false 

• For SSL support

$ cat server_domain-crt-bundle.crt server_domain.key > server_domain.pem 

• Modify the /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg file

  bind :443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/certs/server_domain.pem

Configuration

haproxy.cfg

• Example of /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg