Haproxy fails to start

Question

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 My config files and other info are below. I installed using apt-get.

log /dev/log local0
log /dev/log local1 notice
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
stats timeout 30s
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
timeout connect 5000
timeout client 50000
timeout server 50000
frontend http_front
bind *:80
stats uri /haproxy?stats
default_backend http_back
backend http_back
balance roundrobin
server server1 ip:port check
server server2 ip:port check

I typed in haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -db and I received this output.

[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:2]: unknown keyword ‘log’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:3]: unknown keyword ‘chroot’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:4]: unknown keyword ‘stats’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:5]: unknown keyword ‘user’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:6]: unknown keyword ‘group’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:7]: unknown keyword ‘daemon’ out of section.
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:20] : unknown keyword ‘jstats’ in ‘frontend’ section
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : Fatal errors found in configuration.

My Haproxy status.

Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: Stopped HAProxy Load Balancer.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Dec 25 02:41:58 admin systemd[1]: Failed to start HAProxy Load Balancer.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '21 at 08:28

From the errors you got out of the haproxy -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg -db command, the issue is that you did not set the section of the configs in the first section of your file. From a quick Google search, that section should be named global.

global
    log /dev/log local0
    log /dev/log local1 notice
    chroot /var/lib/haproxy
    stats timeout 30s
    user haproxy
    group haproxy
    daemon

And I assume you fixed the last config error

[ALERT] 359/031621 (6151) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:20] : unknown keyword ‘jstats’ in ‘frontend’ section

As the key looks to be changed to stats instead of jstats

Haproxy fails to start

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