Error: connect ECONNREFUSED

[bryanrossUK]

Hi,

Fantastic work on this, it looks brilliant!

It's probably my complete lack of knowledge re: node.js, but I couldn't get it to work :-(

[root@localhost:~/ha-api]$ ../node-v0.10.28-linux-x64/bin/node
> var HAApi= require('./ha-api'),
...     haapi = new HAApi({
...         socket: { socket : '/var/lib/haproxy/stats' },
...         apiPort : 1111
...     })
connect.multipart() will be removed in connect 3.0
visit https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/wiki/Connect-3.0 for alternatives
connect.limit() will be removed in connect 3.0
undefined
>
events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED
    at errnoException (net.js:904:11)
    at Object.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:895:19)
Exit 8

I've confirmed that HAProxy's socket is working as expected. Eg.

 echo 'disable server webfarm/server1' | socat stdio /var/lib/haproxy/stats

Results in that server marked as disabled in the HAProxy stats web UI.

Can you help? Thanks in advance!

[Treyone]

Hi,

this is intended to be used with tcp sockets, not with unix sockets (like you did : socket : '/var/lib/haproxy/stats').
The socket declaration in the HAproxy conf file should loog like this :

stats socket ipv4@0.0.0.0:7001 level admin

And your initialization should look like

haapi = new HAApi({
host : 'haproxymachine',
port : 7001
})

[bryanrossUK]

Ah! Sorry, I spotted a mention in the docs of using a unix socket, but didn't think to try tcp! Thanks for the quick response and the great project :)