Installing RabbitMQ over Ubuntu/CentOS

This post’s gonna walk you through steps on how to install RabbitMQ on a:

• Ubuntu machine
• Centos machine

Installing RabbitMQ on Ubuntu

Step-I: Get the setup from

http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-debian.html

Version: rabbitmq-server_3.0.2-1_all.deb

Step-II: Run the .deb file using

sudo dpkg -i rabbitmq-server_3.0.2-1_all.deb

Step-III: Start or Stop the rabbitmq server/broker using

/etc/init.d/rabbitmq_server start /etc/init.d/rabbitmq_server stop

Step-IV: Check the status of the server using

rabbitmqctl status

Installing RabbitMQ on CentOS

Step-I: Get the setup from

http://www.rabbitmq.com/install-rpm.html

Version: rabbitmq-server-3.0.2-1.noarch.rpm

If the CentOS version on your machine is EL5:(For CentOS versions of the 5 series, Get to know that using the command "lsb_release -a") run the following commands: 

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm' su -c 'yum install foo'

Else if its EL6: (For CentOS versions of the 6 series, Get to know that using the command "lsb_release -a") run the following commands: 

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm' su -c 'yum install foo'

Step-II: Get the Erlang repository using:

sudo wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-erlang.repo http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/peter/erlang/epel-erlang.repo

Step-III: Install Erlang using:

sudo yum install erlang

Step-IV: You need to import a signing key for RabbitMQ, using the command:

sudo rpm --import http://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-signing-key-public.asc

Step-V: Install the downloaded setup in Step-I using:

sudo yum install rabbitmq-server-3.0.2-1.noarch.rpm

Step-VI: Start/Stop rabbitmq server using

sudo /sbin/service rabbitmq-server start sudo /sbin/service rabbitmq-server stop

Some Extra Notes

• If you ever feel the need to clear all messages from a rabbitmq queue, run the following commands:

rabbitmqctl stop_app rabbitmqctl force_reset /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start

• If you need to configure some rabbitmq server parameters off the league, for example "disk_free_limit", create a file called “rabbitmq.config” and place it in “/etc/rabbitmq” for the server to read it at the time of startup. Here’s a sample config file for your ready reference:

[     {rabbit, [{disk_free_limit, 1000}]}   ].

All the very best !!!