How to install HAProxy on CentOS 7 Minimal

Help!
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Afternoon All,

I’ve been asked to install HAProxy on CentOS 7 Minimal however I don’t seem to be able to add/install it. Could someone be so kind and tell me how I can get this added/installed please.

Regards
Andy

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You need to have connectivity to the Internet for yum to be able to install haproxy from the repositories.

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I have given CentOS 7 access to the internet but when I type “yum install haproxy” I still get the same error message.

Do I need to do something else before I type this command?

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You need working connectivity to the Internet, that includes working DNS resolution.

As you can see from the error message above, CentOS is unable to resolve mirrorlist.centos.org:
Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org

5

I just figured out how I can install HAProxy, first I had to type the following commands.

1: ONBOOT=no
2: dhclient
3: yum install haproxy

Thanks for your help anyway.

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It’s probably worth compiling/installing manually, to get the latest version. It’s pretty straightforward.

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It’s not straightforward for everyone at all. The OP in this thread struggled to get the CentOS box connected to the Internet, so I would strongly recommend against compiling from source.

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Fair comment. I didn’t have my notes on me at the time but will post them below now, might be of use to someone.

  1. Download the installation files and extract content.

    wget http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/src/haproxy-1.8.4.tar.gz
    mkdir haproxy
    tar xzvf haproxy-1.8.4.tar.gz -C haproxy
    cd haproxy/

  2. Install pre-requisites

yum install openssl-devel pcre-devel zlib-devel gcc

  1. Compile source

sudo make TARGET=linux2628 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_PCRE=1 USE_ZLIB=1

  1. Install and complete installation

    sudo make install
    sudo mkdir -p /etc/haproxy
    sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/haproxy
    sudo touch /var/lib/haproxy/stats
    sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/haproxy /usr/sbin/haproxy
    sudo cp examples/haproxy.init /etc/init.d/haproxy
    sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/haproxy
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo chkconfig haproxy on
    sudo useradd -r haproxy

  2. Start HAProxy and Check the service status

    systemctl start haproxy
    systemctl status haproxy