Starting RabbitMQ for first time

[Ed Thompson]

I installed RabbitMQ using the newest rpm into an RHEL7 environment.

I see on /etc/rabbitmq drectory, nothing under init.d, and find no rabbitmq-env.conf file.

How do I get RabbitMQ started after installing for first time?

The online guides seem to assume install and its running. I can't find anything between installing the rpm and writing some code.

[Ed Thompson]

I installed using rabbitmq-server-3.6.10-1.el7.noarch.rpm

[Luke Bakken]

Hi Ed,

Please refer to the "Run RabbitMQ Server" section in this document.

Let me know if that addresses your issue.

Thanks -

Luke

[Ed Thompson]

OK, that helped.

It tries to startup then shuts down.

systemd[1]: Preset file says disable rabbitmq-server.service

I am not sure what that is referring to.

● rabbitmq-server.service - RabbitMQ broker

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-06-07 13:05:16 EDT; 6min ago

  Process: 37998 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rabbitmqctl stop (code=exited, status=75)

  Process: 37838 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

 Main PID: 37838 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[Luke Bakken]

Hi Ed,

At this point your next step should be to examine the log file to
determine what is causing the startup error.

Documentation for file locations can be found here:
https://www.rabbitmq.com/relocate.html#unix

I just installed RabbitMQ on CentOS 7 (via vagrant) and started it. I
documented the process here: https://goo.gl/skffOU

Let me know if you have further questions.

Thanks,
Luke

[Ed Thompson]

Thanks, this helped a lot.

I had proactively added the rabbitmq user as part of my deployment, and in the process interfered with the RPM deployment of the same.