[RABBITMQ - ARTICLE:1] Installing RabbitMQ in Ubuntu

This article describes about how to install RabbitMQ in Ubuntu and how to configure it for our use and also explains about the logs available.

Versions: RabbitMQ 3.6.1

Dependency: Erlang 18.2

Before start the installation, we need to install Erlang 18.2 which is a dependency for RabbitMQ. You can find the installation steps for Erlang in my previous blog:

http://ajanthane.blogspot.com/2016/06/installing-erlang-in-ubuntu.html

After successfully installed the Erlang, download the RabbitMQ Server Generic Unix from the below location.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-generic-unix.html , Here you can find the latest version.

To find previous versions, you can follow this link.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.6.1/

As here our version is 3.6.1, go to the above link and download the rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-3.6.1.tar.xz.

After extracting, we can start the RabbitMQ Server. Go to

/home/ajanthan/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1/sbin

and execute the below command

ajanthan@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p:~/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1/sbin$
./rabbitmq-server start

By Default the management console is not enabled in the installation. To enable it you need to run the below command to install the management plugins.

ajanthan@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p:~/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1/sbin$
./rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

After installing the management plugins, if we done a restart the console will look like this.

Commands for start and stop RabbitMQ Server:

ajanthan@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p:~/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1/sbin$ ./rabbitmq-server start

ajanthan@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p:~/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1/sbin$ ./rabbitmqctl stop

Command to check log files:

ajanthan@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p:~/rabbitmq_server-3.6.1$ sudo tail -f var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@ajanthan-ThinkPad-T440p.log

Now you can access the management console using:

URL: http://localhost:15672

Username: guest

Password: guest

References

[1] https://www.rabbitmq.com/