RabbitMQ - Windows - Issues Moving Default Locations

[Zack Kozar]

Our organization just started working with RabbitMQ in a POC environment.  I am on the learning curve here but RabbitMQ installs by default to the %AppData%\User directory structure.  I would like to move the files to a new data lun, i have tried using the environment variables detailed here at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html but my rabbitmq management console is still showing the initial paths.

I have restarted the RabbitMQ service after adding the environment variables, rebooted the server, and flushed the cache.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Environment Variables Added:

RABBITMQ_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE - D:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_LOGS - D:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ\db

[Michael Klishin]

 On 16 June 2015 at 22:05:59, Zack Kozar (zack...@gmail.com) wrote:
> I have restarted the RabbitMQ service after adding the environment
> variables, rebooted the server, and flushed the cache.

From http://www.rabbitmq.com/configure.html:

«For environment changes to take effect on Windows, the service must be re-installed. It is not sufficient to restart the service.»

There's also a transcript of how the service can be "recreated" without reinstalling
RabbitMQ.
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[Zack Kozar]

MK

Thank you for the help, this was the root of my problem.  Re-install of RabbitMQ resolved my issue.

Thanks

[run2...@gmail.com]

Hi - I am having a similar problem, however, re-installing the the service didn't solve the problem.  I changed the RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE variable once and restarted the service and it worked.  However, I had a misspelling, I typed RabbitQM instead of RabbitMQ in my path.  When I tried to correct the spelling, the logs still go to the misspelled path.  When I view the environment variables, I see RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE twice, but I can't seem to delete or modify the erroneous one.  I think buried in Erlang, but am not sure.  When I scour the drive for occurences of the misspelled path, I see some paramter called error_logging.  Any ideas appreciated.  Thank you.

[Michael Klishin]

Where specifically do you see two environment variables?

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[Elizabeth Everly]

From the the Windows command prompt.  I enter the SET command, and it lists the envrionment variable twice.  

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[Michael Klishin]

Then either there is a typo in one of those, or maybe their case is different? I have never seen this

before (Windows is not an OS I use much, though).

I am also not sure how the Erlang runtime would pick a value in such case.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Elizabeth Everly <run2...@gmail.com> wrote:

From the the Windows command prompt.  I enter the SET command, and it lists the envrionment variable twice.  

On Thursday, August 18, 2016, Michael Klishin <mkli...@pivotal.io> wrote:

Where specifically do you see two environment variables?

On 19 ago 2016, at 2:20, run2...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi - I am having a similar problem, however, re-installing the the service didn't solve the problem.  I changed the RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE variable once and restarted the service and it worked.  However, I had a misspelling, I typed RabbitQM instead of RabbitMQ in my path.  When I tried to correct the spelling, the logs still go to the misspelled path.  When I view the environment variables, I see RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE twice, but I can't seem to delete or modify the erroneous one.  I think buried in Erlang, but am not sure.  When I scour the drive for occurences of the misspelled path, I see some paramter called error_logging.  Any ideas appreciated.  Thank you.

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 12:05:56 PM UTC-7, Zack Kozar wrote:

Our organization just started working with RabbitMQ in a POC environment.  I am on the learning curve here but RabbitMQ installs by default to the %AppData%\User directory structure.  I would like to move the files to a new data lun, i have tried using the environment variables detailed here at https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html but my rabbitmq management console is still showing the initial paths.

I have restarted the RabbitMQ service after adding the environment variables, rebooted the server, and flushed the cache.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Environment Variables Added:

RABBITMQ_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE - D:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_LOGS - D:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE - D:\RabbitMQ\db

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[run2...@gmail.com]

Well, when I got into work today, after a server reboot, I see only one environment variable for each of these paths. 

RABBITMQ_BASE - C:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_CONFIG_FILE - C:\RabbitMQ

RABBITMQ_LOG_BASE - C:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_LOGS - C:\RabbitMQ\log

RABBITMQ_MNESIA_BASE - C:\RabbitMQ\db

 

However, the RabbitMQ service will not start.  The windows event viewer shows this:

RabbitMQ: Erlang machine stopped instantly (distribution name conflict?). The service is not restarted, ignoring OnFail option.

I wonder if I need to unistall and reinstall everything?

On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 12:05:56 PM UTC-7, Zack Kozar wrote:

[Michael Klishin]

There could be a node with the same name running on your machine already. Uninstalling should
stop it :) 

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[run2...@gmail.com]

I don't understand.  I did a -remove and -install with the parameters below, but in looking at the log file to see why the service won't start, this is in the log, not the corrected paths that I set in the environment variables  (even with the path Typos I mentioned yesterday):

=INFO REPORT==== 18-Aug-2016::16:12:52 ===

node           : rabbit@SWHD-DEV

home dir       : C:\Windows

config file(s) : c:/Users/EEverly/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/rabbitmq.config

cookie hash    : 5p7NuSdIgWhv0Gz34nPfhA==

log            : C:/RabbitQM/Log/RABBIT~1.LOG

sasl log       : C:/RabbitQM/Log/RABBIT~2.LOG

database dir   : c:/Users/EEverly/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/db/RABBIT~1

[Jared Kauppila]

What command are you using to remove and install the service?