When im starting HAProxy it says:
Starting haproxy: [ALERT] 038/154339 (770) : Starting proxy proxy1: cannot bind socket [FAILED] My config:
global daemon log /dev/log local4 maxconn 400000 ulimit-n 810000 defaults log global contimeout 4000 clitimeout 42000 srvtimeout 43000 listen proxy1 31.***.50.247:8217 mode tcp balance leastconn server proxy1_1 198.**.**0.70:25565 A bit of my IPs are hidden from serverfault.
Assuming this is RHEL or some derivative, if you have SELinux on it probably wouldn't appreciate you running haproxy on a port the policy is not familiar with.
Try restarting the process, let it fail. Then run ausearch -ts recent -m avc. If its coming back with results (text), then try doing these two commands.
semanage port -a -p tcp -t commplex_port_t 8217 semanage port -a -p tcp -t commplex_port_t 25565 This will ammend the SELinux policy to be aware that haproxy is is listening on these ports.
The strange label "commplex_port_t" is the type definition of port 5000 which (I assume) haproxy defaults to if you dont choose a port. In /etc/services port 5000 claims is registered to the commplex-main service, hence the name of the label being out of place.
cannot bind socket [FAILED] That typically means one of two things:
Since it looks like you're using port 8217 and 25565, #2 isn't the case.
To determine if there is already something listening on that port:
$ sudo netstat -tunlp | grep 8217 