RabbitMQ can't find config file on Windows

[Yury A]

Hi guys!

On my Windows instance of RabbitMQ (3.3.5) I didn't have config file, so RabbitMQ used default values.

After that I decided to set one parameter and renamed file rabbitmq.config.example in %APPDATA%\RabbitMQ to rabbitmq.config.

But in log file I can see:

=INFO REPORT==== 10-Nov-2014::12:25:21 ===

node           : rabbit@YALIOSHINOV

home dir       : C:\WINDOWS

config file(s) : c:/Users/Yury.Alioshinov/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/rabbitmq.config (not found)

cookie hash    : FjLyZGMaTpP+ODCthfIkJg==

log            : C:/Users/Yury.Alioshinov/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/log/rab...@YALIOSHINOV.log

sasl log       : C:/Users/Yury.Alioshinov/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/log/rab...@YALIOSHINOV-sasl.log

database dir   : c:/Users/Yury.Alioshinov/AppData/Roaming/RabbitMQ/db/rabbit@YALIOSHINOV-mnesia

So RabbitMQ didn't find config file....

Is it a bug or maybe I made something wrong?

[Michael Klishin]

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

«Windows service users will need to re-install the service after adding or removing a configuration file.»
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MK

Staff Software Engineer, Pivotal/RabbitMQ

[Yury A]

Oh, thanks a lot =)

[Jeremy Herman]

Hi MK,

How does one reinstall the service when using your installer that installed the NT Service?  Is there a command for this?

[Raymond Rizzuto]

I am having the same issue currently with 3.5.1.  According to 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. "  That seems to be in reference to environment variables, not the addition of a config file in the default location.

[Raymond Rizzuto]

I am having the same issue currently with 3.5.1.  According to 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. "  That seems to be in reference to environment variables, not the addition of a config file in the default location.

 

I think my issue was an invalid config file.  I had uncommented two lines, without removing the trailing comma on the last line.  

[Jared Kauppila]

Raymond,

Did your rabbitmq.config exist when the service was installed? If it wasn't present, the '-config <config path>' argument won't get set in the registry.

You can check this at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ericsson\Erlang\ErlSrv\1.1\RabbitMQ\Args

Once that path is defined making changes to the config will only require a restart.