Solved HAProxy Help

[Mayhem30]

I'm trying to use HAProxy as a forwarding proxy.

I have it running on my dedicated server, and I would like to use from home as my http/https proxy in Firefox.

This is what I have so far in my config, and would appreciate if someone can let me know if I'm doing it right - and what am I missing in the "backend proxy_back" section?

# Global settings
global
    daemon
    maxconn 2048
    ssl-default-bind-ciphers ALL

# Defaults settings
defaults
    timeout connect 5s
    timeout client 30s
    timeout server 30s

resolvers mydns
    nameserver dns1 8.8.8.8:53
    nameserver dns2 8.8.4.4:53
    resolve_retries 3
    timeout resolve 1s
    timeout retry   1s
    hold valid 10s

# Frontend for incoming client connections
frontend http_front
    bind 11.22.33.44:8080
    mode tcp
    default_backend proxy_back

frontend https_front
    bind 11.22.33.44:8080 ssl crt /home/me/haproxy.pem
    mode tcp
    default_backend proxy_back

# Backend to forward requests
backend proxy_back
    mode tcp
    balance roundrobin
    ????
    ????

 

[SirDice]

You're binding both HTTP and HTTPS on port 8080, that's not going to work. Also remove the mode tcp from the frontends, you want to proxy HTTP (mode http), not a plain TCP connection.

And the thing you're missing on the backend is a server definition pointing to the webserver.

backend proxy_back
  server mywebserver 1.2.3.4:80

 

[Mayhem30]

Thank you