# Help me please , I have failed to start HAproxy
**URL:** https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/help-me-please-i-have-failed-to-start-haproxy/4018
**Category:** Help!
**Created:** [July 5, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/help-me-please-i-have-failed-to-start-haproxy/4018 "2019-07-05T05:08:39Z")
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### Author:  [@PEACE](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/PEACE)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/help-me-please-i-have-failed-to-start-haproxy/4018/1 "2019-07-05T05:08:39Z")
i just newbie, i want to build HAproxy with my computer, with localhost using VMware. i have 3 servers, and i done with my configuration. but something happen when i want to start my HAproxy configuration. the configuration FAILED, can u please tell me where is the error with my configuration?
here is my configuration :
global
log /dev/log local0
log 127.0.0.1 local1 notice
maxconn 4096
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin
stats timeout 30s
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
```
# Default SSL material locations
ca-base /etc/ssl/certs
crt-base /etc/ssl/private
# Default ciphers to use on SSL-enabled listening sockets.
# For more information, see ciphers(1SSL). This list is from:
# https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers-ssl-ciphers/
# An alternative list with additional directives can be obtained from
# https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/?server=haproxy
ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS
ssl-default-bind-options no-sslv3
```
defaults
log global
mode http
option httplog
option dontlognull
retries 3
option redispatch
maxconn 2000
conntimeout 5000
clitimeout 50000
srvtimeout 50000
listen loadbalance 0.0.0.0:1936
mode http
stats enable
stats uri /haproxy?stats
option httpclose
option forwardfor
balance roundrobin
server webserver1 10.20.20.10:80 check
server webserver2 10.20.20.20:80 check
and the error said :
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i will be appreciate and will get much knowledge from u master, thanks for your attention and your time 😊
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### Author:  [@ciprian.craciun](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/ciprian.craciun)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 5:28am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/help-me-please-i-have-failed-to-start-haproxy/4018/2 "2019-07-05T05:28:11Z")
Could you perhaps run `haproxy -c -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg` (adapt if necessary), which checks and reports if there is something wrong with the configuration file.
Perhaps also try to run it in the foreground as `haproxy -d -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg`
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### Author:  [@PEACE](https://discourse.haproxy.org/u/PEACE)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/help-me-please-i-have-failed-to-start-haproxy/4018/3 "2019-07-05T06:03:38Z")
done . i change my haproxy.cfg , like this :
and its works :
Thank you for responding
😊