Following a tutorial but gone wrong (haproxy.service: Start request repeated too quickly.)

I was following this tutorial (I use Ubuntu 20.04 minimal) to run a DNS over HTTPS which is very close to my use case: A experimental server with just only so many applications inside and nothing production worth. The thing is I need to have both the dnsdist service and nginx using port 443.

frontend https
   bind 12.34.56.78:443
   mode tcp
   tcp-request inspect-delay 5s
   tcp-request content accept if { req_ssl_hello_type 1 }

   use_backend dnsdist if { req_ssl_sni -i doh.example.com }
   use_backend nginx if { req_ssl_sni -i www.example.com }
   use_backend nginx if { req_ssl_sni -i example.com }

   default_backend dnsdist

backend dnsdist
   mode tcp
   option ssl-hello-chk
   server dnsdist 127.0.0.1:443

backend nginx
   mode tcp
   option ssl-hello-chk
   server nginx 127.0.0.2:443 check

What the tutorial doesn’t show is the content above this block (because it comes preinstalled I guess). I have this right above this block:

global
        log /dev/log    local0
        log /dev/log    local1 notice
        chroot /var/lib/haproxy
        stats socket /run/haproxy/admin.sock mode 660 level admin expose-fd listeners
        stats timeout 30s
        user haproxy
        group haproxy
        daemon

        # Default SSL material locations
        ca-base /etc/ssl/certs
        crt-base /etc/ssl/private

        # See: https://ssl-config.mozilla.org/#server=haproxy&server-version=2.0.3&config=intermediate
        ssl-default-bind-ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
        ssl-default-bind-ciphersuites TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256
        ssl-default-bind-options ssl-min-ver TLSv1.2 no-tls-tickets

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 

I added both of them in the same position and IP but I couldn’t manage them to work together. Testing the configuration it’s fine but running the process on systemctl it throws this message:

Feb 02 18:31:25 instance-20210130-1326 systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 02 18:31:25 instance-20210130-1326 systemd[1]: haproxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 02 18:31:25 instance-20210130-1326 systemd[1]: Failed to start HAProxy Load Balancer.

So I don’t know if something can be done. (Both subdomains are created under let’s encrypt but none of them is the main domain which is in another server)

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