HAProxy For Windows [v2.5.3]

The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

It is particularly suited for very high traffic web sites and powers quite a number of the world's most visited ones. Over the years it has become the de-facto standard opensource load balancer, is now shipped with most mainstream Linux distributions, and is often deployed by default in cloud platforms.

Features

• Open SSL
• gzip Compression

QuickStart(use quiet mode)

haproxy.exe -f config.json -q

Usage : haproxy [-f <cfgfile>]* [ -vdVD ] [ -n <maxconn> ] [ -N <maxpconn> ]
        [ -p <pidfile> ] [ -m <max megs> ] [ -C <dir> ] [-- <cfgfile>*]
        -v displays version ; -vv shows known build options.
        -d enters debug mode ; -db only disables background mode.
        -dM[<byte>] poisons memory with <byte> (defaults to 0x50)
        -V enters verbose mode (disables quiet mode)
        -D goes daemon ; -C changes to <dir> before loading files.
        -q quiet mode : don't display messages
        -c check mode : only check config files and exit
        -n sets the maximum total # of connections (2000)
        -m limits the usable amount of memory (in MB)
        -N sets the default, per-proxy maximum # of connections (2000)
        -L set local peer name (default to hostname)
        -p writes pids of all children to this file
        -de disables epoll() usage even when available
        -dp disables poll() usage even when available
        -dS disables splice usage (broken on old kernels)
        -dV disables SSL verify on servers side
        -sf/-st [pid ]* finishes/terminates old pids.

How to build

Compilation and installation of HAProxy in Windows

1. Download and Install cygwin (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe), after installation, copy setup-x86_64.exe to c:\cygwin64
2. On terminal (cmd), install gcc, make and libs

   cd c:\cygwin64
   setup-x86_64.exe -q -P wget -P gcc-g++ -P make -P libssl-devel -P zlib-devel -P ldd
   

3. Open the cygwin64 terminal

   Cygwin.bat
   

4. Download source code (inside cygwin64 terminal)

   wget http://www.haproxy.org/download/2.5/src/haproxy-2.5.3.tar.gz
   tar xzvf haproxy-2.5.3.tar.gz
   rm -rf ./haproxy-2.5.3.tar.gz 
   cd haproxy-2.5.3.tar.gz
   

5. Build (inside cygwin64 terminal)

   make TARGET=cygwin USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_ZLIB=1
   

6. Copy haproxy.exe and all dependencies (.dll)

   # show dependencies
   ldd ./haproxy.exe
   
   # create a folder in C:/
   mkdir -p /cygdrive/c/haproxy 
   
   # copy all
   cp ./haproxy.exe /cygdrive/c/haproxy
   cp /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll /cygdrive/c/haproxy
   cp /usr/bin/cygssl-1.1.dll /cygdrive/c/haproxy
   cp /usr/bin/cygcrypto-1.1.dll /cygdrive/c/haproxy
   cp /usr/bin/cygz.dll /cygdrive/c/haproxy
   
   # delete trash (C:/cygwin64/home/YOUR_USER)
   cd ..
   rm -rf ./haproxy-2.5.3
   
   # exit cygwin6 terminal
   exit
   

7. On cmd, you can test haproxy

   cd C:/haproxy
   haproxy.exe -v