HAProxy Configuration
Internal
Overview
If installed with yum, the default configuration file is deployed in /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg and the systemd configuration file in /etc/sysconfig/haproxy.
Dependency on Other Services
Under some circumstances, HAProxy need other services to start before it starts, so it can rely on them. For example, if a local DNS server resolves the names referred from HAProxy configuration file, the named service must start before HAProxy. This is configured in the HAProxy's unit file /usr/lib/systemd/system/haproxy.service:
Requires=named.service After=syslog.target network.target named.service
More details: Declaring a Dependency on a Service.
Logging Configuration
HAProxy logging concepts:
Logging configuration consists of the following steps:
Add the following to the "global" section of the configuration file:
log 127.0.0.1:514 local2
and then add the following to each "defaults" section or to each frontend and backend section:
log global
Then make sure the local syslogd does listen to the UDP traffic. For details on how to do this for rsyslogd, see:
Configure HAProxy to Log into a File
Assuming that logging was configured as described in the previous section, configure local2 events to go to the /var/log/haproxy.log file. Add the following line in /etc/rsyslog.conf:
local2.* /var/log/haproxy.log
SSL Configuration
Configuration Reference
Options
httplog
tcplog
Logging is set to tcp instead of the default http.
ssl-hello-chk
A health check that verifies the the connection and its ability to handle SSL (SSLv3 specifically) connections.
global
defaults
mode
Possible values:
http
tcp
Used to pass secure connections off to a backend server without encrypting it.