HA Proxy: Warning Server home_ipvANY/home is DOWN

Networking & Firewalls
1

I am doing a fresh install of pFsense and am working though Tom’s video for setting up HA Proxy again.

I have however done something wrong as when I restart the service (after editing the frontend), I get

[NOTICE] (85154) : haproxy version is 2.8.3-86e043a
[NOTICE] (85154) : path to executable is /usr/local/sbin/haproxy
[WARNING] (85154) : config : Server home_ipvANY/home is DOWN, changed from server-state after a reload. 0 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue.

and my url cannot be reached.

nslookup returns the IP for the frontend address so DNS looks to be good.

2

There are too many variables and not enough information to give any guidance.

Simply put, HAproxy cannot reach your backend ip/port. And/Or your application you are trying to proxy isn’t configured to allow the proxy address.

3

Ok, so I uninstalled HA Proxy and started again and now it works. I must have missed something the first time.