Compiling and Installing HAProxy from Source Code

Obtain the HAProxy source code.

Download the HAProxy source code package using a local browser.
Download address: https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.9/src/haproxy-1.9.0.tar.gz

Copy the source code to the /home directory on the server.

If the server is connected to the Internet, you can run the wget command on the server to download the source code.

           
                cd /home

           
                wget https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.9/src/haproxy-1.9.0.tar.gz --no-check-certificate

Compile and install HAProxy.

       
            make TARGET=linux41 && make install PREFIX=/usr/local/haproxy/

PREFIX=PATH specifies the HAProxy installation directory.

Create a folder in the HAProxy installation path for storing the configuration file.
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mkdir -p /usr/local/haproxy/conf

Copy the configuration file from the source code directory to the installation directory.

       
            cp /home/haproxy-1.9.0/examples/*.cfg /usr/local/haproxy/conf/

Parent topic: Installing HAProxy