HAProxy gets “Permission denied” error on server restart

I’m having issues with HAProxy not restarting when my Red Hat server restarts. I have a service script thats designed to call the haproxy start script on server reboot. Every time I try to start it with the server, it returns “Could not open configuration file /apps/haproxy/config/haproxy.cfg : Permission denied” in the nohup file. The service script is:

[Unit]
Description=HAProxy Load Balancer
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=user1
ExecStart=/apps/haproxy/bin/start.sh
ExecStop=/apps/haproxy/bin/stop.sh
Group=games
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The start script it calls is:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

nohup haproxy -D -db -f /apps/haproxy/config/haproxy.cfg  -p /apps/haproxy/config/haproxy.pid -sf $(cat /apps/haproxy/config/haproxy.pid) >> /apps/haproxy/bin/nohup.out 2>&1 &

So far, I’ve tried giving the configuration file 777 permissions, but this has not worked. I’m using versio 1.5.18 of HAProxy, and my configuration is as follows:

global
  maxconn 4096
  quiet
  user root
  group root

#/installs version
defaults
  log     global
  mode    http
  retries 3
  timeout client 3600s
  timeout connect 3600s
  timeout server 3600s
  option tcplog
  balance  roundrobin
# Set up application listeners here.

listen admin
  bind 127.0.0.1:22005
  mode http
  stats enable
  stats show-node
  stats uri  /admin

listen  stats    :1939
  mode            http
  log             global

  maxconn 10

  timeout client      3600s
  timeout server      3600s
  timeout connect     3600s
  timeout queue   3600s

  stats enable
  stats hide-version
  stats show-node
  stats uri  /haproxy?stats

frontend http
  maxconn 2000
  bind 0.0.0.0:5050

  acl test-service path_reg /test*
  use_backend servers-test if test-service

backend servers-test
  server www.testserver.com 127.0.0.1:8000 maxconn 100

A few caveats to my issue:

1. Upgrading HAProxy is not an option for me. I’m trying to get a newer version, but there is a process that needs to be followed for that, and it has currently stalled
2. I can’t really provide any logs, as I’m also still trying to get that working rsyslog, so for the moment, I can only use the informaiton provided by nohup. As it is, though, I don’t think logs would provide any additional insight, as when the server reboots HAProxy is not even restarting - it just gives the “permission denied” error.

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