200 lines
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200 lines
6.6 KiB
Groff
.TH HAPROXY 1 "17 August 2007"
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.SH NAME
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HAProxy \- fast and reliable http reverse proxy and load balancer
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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haproxy \-f <configuration\ file|dir> [\-L\ <name>] [\-n\ maxconn] [\-N\ maxconn] [\-C\ <dir>] [\-v|\-vv] [\-d] [\-D] [\-q] [\-V] [\-c] [\-p\ <pidfile>] [\-dk] [\-ds] [\-de] [\-dp] [\-db] [\-dM[<byte>]] [\-m\ <megs>] [{\-sf|\-st}\ pidlist...]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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HAProxy is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for
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high availability environments. Indeed, it can:
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\- route HTTP requests depending on statically assigned cookies ;
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\- spread the load among several servers while assuring server
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persistence through the use of HTTP cookies ;
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\- switch to backup servers in the event a main one fails ;
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\- accept connections to special ports dedicated to service
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monitoring ;
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\- stop accepting connections without breaking existing ones ;
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\- add/modify/delete HTTP headers both ways ;
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\- block requests matching a particular pattern ;
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\- hold clients to the right application server depending on
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application cookies
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\- report detailed status as HTML pages to authenticated users from an
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URI intercepted from the application.
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It needs very little resource. Its event-driven architecture allows it
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to easily handle thousands of simultaneous connections on hundreds of
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instances without risking the system's stability.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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\fB\-f <configuration file|dir>\fP
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Specify configuration file or directory path. If the argument is a directory
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the files (and only files) it contains are added in lexical order (using
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LC_COLLATE=C) ; only non hidden files with ".cfg" extension are added.
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\fB\-L <name>\fP
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Set the local instance's peer name. Peers are defined in the \fBpeers\fP
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configuration section and used for syncing stick tables between different
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instances. If this option is not specified, the local hostname is used as peer
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name.
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\fB\-n <maxconn>\fP
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Set the high limit for the total number of simultaneous connections.
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\fB\-N <maxconn>\fP
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Set the high limit for the per-listener number of simultaneous connections.
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\fB\-C <dir>\fP
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Change directory to <\fIdir\fP> before loading any files.
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\fB\-v\fP
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Display HAProxy's version.
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\fB\-vv\fP
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Display HAProxy's version and all build options.
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\fB\-d\fP
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Start in foreground with debugging mode enabled.
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When the proxy runs in this mode, it dumps every connections,
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disconnections, timestamps, and HTTP headers to stdout. This should
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NEVER be used in an init script since it will prevent the system from
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starting up.
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\fB\-D\fP
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Start in daemon mode.
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\fB\-Ds\fP
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Start in systemd daemon mode, keeping a process in foreground.
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\fB\-q\fP
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Disable messages on output.
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\fB\-V\fP
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Displays messages on output even when \-q or 'quiet' are specified. Some
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information about pollers and config file are displayed during startup.
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\fB\-c\fP
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Only checks config file and exits with code 0 if no error was found, or
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exits with code 1 if a syntax error was found.
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\fB\-p <pidfile>\fP
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Ask the process to write down each of its children's pids to this file
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in daemon mode.
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\fB\-dk\fP
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Disable use of \fBkqueue\fP(2). \fBkqueue\fP(2) is available only on BSD systems.
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\fB\-ds\fP
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Disable use of speculative \fBepoll\fP(7). \fBepoll\fP(7) is available only on
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Linux 2.6 and some custom Linux 2.4 systems.
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\fB\-de\fP
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Disable use of \fBepoll\fP(7). \fBepoll\fP(7) is available only on Linux 2.6
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and some custom Linux 2.4 systems.
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\fB\-dp\fP
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Disables use of \fBpoll\fP(2). \fBselect\fP(2) might be used instead.
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\fB\-dS\fP
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Disables use of \fBsplice\fP(2), which is broken on older kernels.
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\fB\-db\fP
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Disables background mode (stays in foreground, useful for debugging).
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For debugging, the '\-db' option is very useful as it temporarily
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disables daemon mode and multi-process mode. The service can then be
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stopped by simply pressing Ctrl-C, without having to edit the config nor
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run full debug.
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\fB\-dM[<byte>]\fP
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Initializes all allocated memory areas with the given <\fIbyte\fP>. This makes
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it easier to detect bugs resulting from uninitialized memory accesses, at the
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expense of touching all allocated memory once. If <\fIbyte\fP> is not
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specified, it defaults to 0x50 (ASCII 'P').
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\fB\-m <megs>\fP
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Enforce a memory usage limit to a maximum of <megs> megabytes.
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\fB\-sf <pidlist>\fP
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Send FINISH signal to the pids in pidlist after startup. The processes
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which receive this signal will wait for all sessions to finish before
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exiting. This option must be specified last, followed by any number of
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PIDs. Technically speaking, \fBSIGTTOU\fP and \fBSIGUSR1\fP are sent.
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.TP
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\fB\-st <pidlist>\fP
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Send TERMINATE signal to the pids in pidlist after startup. The processes
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which receive this signal will terminate immediately, closing all active
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sessions. This option must be specified last, followed by any number of
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PIDs. Technically speaking, \fBSIGTTOU\fP and \fBSIGTERM\fP are sent.
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.SH LOGGING
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Since HAProxy can run inside a chroot, it cannot reliably access /dev/log.
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For this reason, it uses the UDP protocol to send its logs to the server,
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even if it is the local server. People who experience trouble receiving
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logs should ensure that their syslog daemon listens to the UDP socket.
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Several Linux distributions which ship with syslogd from the sysklogd
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package have UDP disabled by default. The \fB\-r\fP option must be passed
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to the daemon in order to enable UDP.
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.SH SIGNALS
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Some signals have a special meaning for the haproxy daemon. Generally, they are used between daemons and need not be used by the administrator.
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\- \fBSIGUSR1\fP
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Tells the daemon to stop all proxies and exit once all sessions are closed. It is often referred to as the "soft-stop" signal.
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\- \fBSIGTTOU\fP
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Tells the daemon to stop listening to all sockets. Used internally by \fB\-sf\fP and \fB\-st\fP.
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\- \fBSIGTTIN\fP
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Tells the daemon to restart listening to all sockets after a \fBSIGTTOU\fP. Used internally when there was a problem during hot reconfiguration.
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\- \fBSIGINT\fP and \fBSIGTERM\fP
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Both signals can be used to quickly stop the daemon.
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\- \fBSIGHUP\fP
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Dumps the status of all proxies and servers into the logs. Mostly used for trouble-shooting purposes.
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\- \fBSIGQUIT\fP
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Dumps information about memory pools on stderr. Mostly used for debugging purposes.
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\- \fBSIGPIPE\fP
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This signal is intercepted and ignored on systems without \fBMSG_NOSIGNAL\fP.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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A much better documentation can be found in configuration.txt. On Debian
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systems, you can find this file in /usr/share/doc/haproxy/configuration.txt.gz.
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.SH AUTHOR
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HAProxy was written by Willy Tarreau. This man page was written by Arnaud Cornet and Willy Tarreau.
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