Sunday, August 21, 2016

How to install rabbitMQ on windows

I tried to follow the rabbitMQ official guide to download and install (include Erlang) but it is still not working.

This blog finally saved my day.
http://arcware.net/installing-rabbitmq-on-windows/

Here is the summary to be done,

Firewall inbound rules setup,
Allow ports for 5672,15672
Allow program for

  • %ProgramFiles%\erl8.0\bin\erl.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\erl8.0\erts-8.0\bin\erl.exe
  • %ProgramFiles%\erl8.0\erts-8.0\bin\epmd.exe

Set up correct home drive and reinstall the service (running cmd as administrator)
SET HOMEDRIVE=C:
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
rabbitmq-service stop
rabbitmq-service install
rabbitmq-service start