HAProxy Start request repeated too quickly

I am having trouble getting HAProxy to start. I am running on a raspberry pi 3b+ with the lastest version of raspbian buster. i tried to manually stop and start the service with no luck.

what does journalctl -xeu haproxy say ?

that isn’t helpful. Perhaps if you scroll up to when you started haproxy. Otherwise you can try a config check with haproxy -c -f /path/to/config/file.cfg
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Try directly. Stop everything systemd related and run from command line.

$ sudo su -
$ systemctl stop haproxy
$ haproxy  -db -f /path/to/config/file.cfg

Either you are not root (required for binding to privileged ports < 1024) or there is already something bound to port 80.

I would also verify that 10.0.0.1 is assigned to one of your interfaces, if your bind line is ‘bind 10.0.0.1:80 …’

I’m not sure what this is supposed to do, or whether there is just a visualization issue here in the forum (please use code tag </> to format the configuration):

This should be either :80 or *:80.

That doesn’t make sense. Maybe you mean:

server camera1 camera1.local:80
server camera2 camera2.local:80

?