title: HAProxy Fails to Start
body: <p>I can't seem to get my HAProxy to start, any ideas whats causing the problem?</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@haproxy-www:/# service haproxy restart
  root@haproxy-www:/# service haproxy status
  haproxy.service - HAProxy Load Balancer
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/haproxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Mon 2017-10-02 17:21:11 AEDT; 4s ago
       Docs: man:haproxy(1)
             file:/usr/share/doc/haproxy/configuration.txt.gz
    Process: 11014 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/haproxy-systemd-wrapper -f ${CONFIG} -p /run/haproxy.pid $EXTRAOPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 11011 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/haproxy -f ${CONFIG} -c -q (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 11014 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  
  Oct 02 17:21:11 haproxy-www systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
  Oct 02 17:21:11 haproxy-www systemd[1]: Stopped HAProxy Load Balancer.
  Oct 02 17:21:11 haproxy-www systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
  Oct 02 17:21:11 haproxy-www systemd[1]: Failed to start HAProxy Load Balancer.
  root@haproxy-www:/# 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my haproxy.cfg file</p>
  
  <p>global
          log /dev/log    local0
          log /dev/log    local1 notice
          chroot /var/lib/haproxy
          stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin
          stats timeout 30s
          user haproxy
          group haproxy
          daemon</p>
  
  <pre><code>    # 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/
      ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS
      ssl-default-bind-options no-sslv3
  
  defaults
          log     global
          mode    tcp
          option  tcplog
          option  dontlognull
          timeout connect 5000
          timeout client  50000
          timeout server  50000
          errorfile 400 /etc/haproxy/errors/400.http
          errorfile 403 /etc/haproxy/errors/403.http
          errorfile 408 /etc/haproxy/errors/408.http
          errorfile 500 /etc/haproxy/errors/500.http
          errorfile 502 /etc/haproxy/errors/502.http
          errorfile 503 /etc/haproxy/errors/503.http
          errorfile 504 /etc/haproxy/errors/504.http
  
  frontend www
          bind ***.***.***.**:80
          default_backend site-backend
  
  backend site-backend
          balance roundrobin
          mode tcp
          server webserver-1 10.240.0.178:80 check
          server webserver-2 10.240.0.42:80 check
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you =)</p>