Configuring HAProxy with only 2 EC2 Nodes

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I am very new in this and I am trying to configure a load balancer for 2 web servers using HAProxy with 2 EC2 Instances. Let’s just say I can only work with 2 Instances, is it possible for me to hook this up with only 2 nodes?

I currently only have NodeA (x.x.x.1) and NodeB (x.x.x.2), I set up my HAproxy at NodeA listening to port 80. my full haproxy.cfg at NodeA looks like this.

    global
    log         /dev/log local0
    log         127.0.0.1 local0
    chroot      /var/lib/haproxy
    pidfile     /var/run/haproxy.pid
    maxconn     4000
    user        haproxy
    group       haproxy
    daemon
    stats socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats

defaults
    mode                    http
    log                     global
    option                  httplog
    option                  dontlognull
    option http-server-close
    option forwardfor       except 127.0.0.0/8
    option                  redispatch
    retries                 3
    timeout http-request    10s
    timeout queue           1m
    timeout connect         10s
    timeout client          1m
    timeout server          1m
    timeout http-keep-alive 10s
    timeout check           10s
    maxconn                 3000

    errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errorfiles/503.http

frontend http-in
    mode http
    bind *:80

    default_backend webservers


backend webservers
    mode http
    balance roundrobin
    server NodeA x.x.x.1 check port 80
    server NodeB x.x.x.2 check port 80

as you can see from the configuration above, the load balancing doesn’t work because i cannot start up my Apache on NodeA because HAPorxy is taking up Port80. and I can only get NodeB but not NodeA.

I have tried changing the HAporxy port to listening to other port: Failed.
I have also tried changing my Apache Port to other port and have NodeA looks something like

frontend http-in
        mode http
        bind *:80 
    
        default_backend webservers
    
    backend webservers
        mode http
        balance roundrobin
        server NodeA x.x.x.1:81 check
        server NodeB x.x.x.2:81 check

but failed as well. I am now getting a 404 Bad Request at my browser.

some logs from HAProxy

   x.x.x.1:53006 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.789] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/43/43 400 168 - - ---- 6/6/6/6/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:53002 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.788] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/43/43 400 168 - - ---- 5/5/5/5/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:52998 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.788] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/44/44 400 168 - - ---- 4/4/4/4/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:52994 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.787] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/44/44 400 168 - - ---- 3/3/3/3/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:52990 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.787] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/45/45 400 168 - - ---- 2/2/2/2/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:52986 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:57.786] http-in webservers/NodeA 0/0/0/45/45 400 168 - - ---- 1/1/1/1/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n 
x.x.x.1:57534 [18/Mar/2019:01:27:52.344] http-in webservers/NodeA 5441/1/0/46/5718 400 168 - - ---- 1/1/0/0/+1 0/0 "GET / HTTP/1.1"n

I am not sure if I am understanding the right concept.

But essentially I am asking if it is possible to load balance with only 2 nodes,
(eg. NodeA running HAProxy and Apache, Node B as secondary server)

Would appreciate to know if my concept is wrong or any workaround with this set up.