haproxy bind command to include cipher in haproxy.cfg file - linux

Question

I am configuring the haproxy.cfg file for haproxy. i need to add cipher suite in this file. for that i am using bind command. My bind command is as below.
bind 0.0.0.0:443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/certs/private1.pem nosslv3
prefer-server-ciphers ciphers
TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:#STRENGTH
With bind command bind *:443 it is working fine. once i add the other arguments its throwing error.
After including this command in haproxy.cfg file and restarting the haproxy service. i am getting the error.
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[ALERT] 164/074924 (31084) : parsing [/etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg:80] : 'bind' only supports the 'transparent', 'defer-accept', 'name', 'id', 'mss' and 'interface' options.
[ALERT] 164/074924 (31084) : Error(s) found in configuration file : /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
[ALERT] 164/074924 (31084) : Fatal errors found in configuration.
Errors in configuration file, check with haproxy check.
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For resolving this issue i tried to install "libssl-dev" package. but i am not able to install that package also.
**Please guide me to do this. and i need to know is it neccesary to give the pem file entry in bind, or i can directly include cipher itself like this.
bind *:8443 ciphers TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:#STRENGTH**
Appending my haproxy.cfg file below.
**#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Example configuration for a possible web application. See the
# full configuration options online.
#
# http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.4/doc/configuration.txt
#
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Global settings
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
global
# to have these messages end up in /var/log/haproxy.log you will
# need to:
#
# 1) configure syslog to accept network log events. This is done
# by adding the '-r' option to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in
# /etc/sysconfig/syslog
#
# 2) configure local2 events to go to the /var/log/haproxy.log
# file. A line like the following can be added to
# /etc/sysconfig/syslog
#
# local2.* /var/log/haproxy.log
#
log 127.0.0.1 local2
chroot /var/lib/haproxy
pidfile /var/run/haproxy.pid
maxconn 4000
user haproxy
group haproxy
daemon
# turn on stats unix socket
stats socket /var/lib/haproxy/stats
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# common defaults that all the 'listen' and 'backend' sections will
# use if not designated in their block
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
defaults
mode http
log global
option httplog
option dontlognull
option http-server-close
option forwardfor except 127.0.0.0/8
option redispatch
retries 3
timeout http-request 10s
timeout queue 1m
timeout connect 10s
timeout client 1m
timeout server 1m
timeout http-keep-alive 10s
timeout check 10s
maxconn 3000
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# main frontend which proxys to the backends
frontend inbound
mode http
bind 0.0.0.0:443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/certs/private1.pem nosslv3 prefer-server-ciphers ciphers TLSv1+HIGH:!SSLv2:!aNULL:!eNULL:!3DES:#STRENGTH
# static backend for serving up images, stylesheets and such
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
backend postgresqlcluster1
mode http
balance roundrobin
server postgres1 192.44.9.101:8080 check**

Answer 1

You need to be using 1.5-dev19+ (current is 15.-dev26) to utilize any of the ssl functionality; based on the error and the config excerpt, it looks like you are running 1.4.