[rabbitmq-discuss] Running RabbitMQ as a Windows Service - Having some problems

[Eran Sandler]

Hello all,

First time on the mailing list :-) I think RabbitMQ is great but I have a small problem running it as a Windows service.

I've tried numerous ways of running RabbitMQ as a Windows service on Windows 2003.

I've used erlsrv.exe with the following command:

erlsrv add rabbitmq_messagequeue -sname rabbit -args "-mnesia dir '\"C:/RabbitMQ/db/rabbit-mnesia\"' -boot start_sasl -s rabbit -sasl errlog_type error"

The service runs but rabbitmq isn't running if I run "rabbitmqctrl.bat status". I tried passing the rest of the arguments such as the log file location etc but that makes the service not run.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Eran

[Ben Hood]

Eran,

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Eran Sandler <eran.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried numerous ways of running RabbitMQ as a Windows service on Windows
> 2003.
>
> I've used erlsrv.exe with the following command:
>
> erlsrv add rabbitmq_messagequeue -sname rabbit -args "-mnesia dir
> '\"C:/RabbitMQ/db/rabbit-mnesia\"' -boot start_sasl -s rabbit -sasl
> errlog_type error"
>
> The service runs but rabbitmq isn't running if I run "rabbitmqctrl.bat
> status". I tried passing the rest of the arguments such as the log file
> location etc but that makes the service not run.

First of all, I have not run erlsrv myself because I don't have access
to a windows machine, but I'm sure that this can achieved via VMware
soon.

However, I do know of somebody who has done this already with windows,
so I've prompted them for the solution, hopefully that will turn up
soon.

BTW, to clarify your question - are you saying that Rabbit is actually
running (meaning that you can connect to it via a client) and that the
rabbitmqctrl.bat is just returning the wrong status when it is
invoked?

HTH,

Ben

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[Eran Sandler]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the response.

The Erlang process goes up (it seems erlsrv when started takes the process up) and I can telnet to port 5672 and get a response that contains the words AQMP (which is usually the quickest way I check if the service is up), but when I run "rabbitmqctrl status" it says the node is down.

Eran

[Eran Sandler]

I've managed to manually edit the arguments passed to the erlang interpreter by erlsrv and added all the necessary parameters for logging and for the db. So now I can start it as a Windows service and it seems to be working.

The log seems to behave correctly and when I telnet I see the log reporting on this.

When I run "rabbitmqctl status" I get the following error in the log:

** Connection attempt from disallowed node rabbitmqctl@yeddaweb7 **

Can it be a permissions problem of some kind? RabbitMQ's process runs under the Local system account while the process of rabbitmqctl runs under a local user.

Eran

[Eran Sandler]

Forgot to mention, this is the command line that evetually runs RabbitMQ:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\erl5.5.5\erts-5.5.5\bin\erl.exe" -service_event ErlSrv_rabbitmq_messagequeue -nohup -sname rabbit -mnesia dir \""C:/RabbitMQ/db/rabbit-mnesia"\" -boot start_sasl -s rabbit -sasl errlog_type error -kernel inet_default_listen_options "[{sndbuf, 16384}, {recbuf, 4096}]" -rabbit tcp_listeners "[{\"0.0.0.0\", 5672}]" -kernel error_logger {file,\""C:/RabbitMQ/log/rabbit.log"\"}  -sasl sasl_error_logger {file,\""C:/RabbitMQ/log/rabbit-sasl.log"\"}

Eran

Eran Sandler wrote:

[Eran Sandler]

I've tried running both on the same user account and it still didn't manage to access it.

What do I pass to the -setcookie <cookie> parameter (so I'll try that as well)

Eran

Matthias Radestock wrote:

Eran,

Eran Sandler wrote:

When I run "rabbitmqctl status" I get the following error in the log:

** Connection attempt from disallowed node rabbitmqctl@yeddaweb7 **


Can it be a permissions problem of some kind? RabbitMQ's process runs under the Local system account while the process of rabbitmqctl runs under a local user.

Erlang uses cookies to control which nodes are allowed to connect to each other. The cookie file lives in the user's home directory in the file .erlang.cookie.

Since in your setup the rabbitmqctl command is run by a different user than the RabbitMQ server, you need to either make the contents of the .erlang.cookie files the same or use the -setcookie <cookie> parameter to erl.exe to set the cookie explicitly.

Regards,

Matthias.

[Matthias Radestock]

Eran,

Eran Sandler wrote:
> When I run "rabbitmqctl status" I get the following error in the log:
>
> ** Connection attempt from disallowed node rabbitmqctl@yeddaweb7 **
>
>
> Can it be a permissions problem of some kind? RabbitMQ's process runs
> under the Local system account while the process of rabbitmqctl runs
> under a local user.

Erlang uses cookies to control which nodes are allowed to connect to

each other. The cookie file lives in the user's home directory in the
file .erlang.cookie.

Since in your setup the rabbitmqctl command is run by a different user
than the RabbitMQ server, you need to either make the contents of the
.erlang.cookie files the same or use the -setcookie <cookie> parameter
to erl.exe to set the cookie explicitly.

Regards,

Matthias.

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[Matthias Radestock]

Eran Sandler wrote:
> What do I pass to the -setcookie <cookie> parameter (so I'll try that as
> well)

Anything, just as long as it's the same in both your server startup and
rabbitmqctl.