Install haproxy
Install Software
The installation of haproxy is performed using the following commands:
apt-get -y install haproxy
mv /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg.sample
The second command renames the installed configuration, as this is not required.
Acticate haproxy
Activate the haproxy service with the following command:
systemctl enable haproxy.service
Configure Firewall
Configure the firewall with the following commands:
ufw allow 80/tcp ufw allow 443/tcp ufw allow 7777/tcp
Configure the firewall with the following commands:
ufw allow in on eth1 to any port 80 proto tcp ufw allow in on eth1 to any port 443 proto tcp ufw allow in on eth1 to any port 7777 proto tcp
haproxy Log
These commands are not required on Debian 11.5 machines and later. Do not execute the following commands on those systems.
To allow the haproxy service to log to the syslog service, the following commands are executed.
The logs from haproxy will be in /var/log/haproxy.log
sed -i '/module(load="imudp")/s/^#//g' /etc/rsyslog.conf sed -i '/input(type="imudp"/s/^#//g' /etc/rsyslog.conf cat <<EOFF>/etc/rsyslog.d/haproxy.conf local2.* /var/log/haproxy.log & stop EOFF systemctl restart rsyslog