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Installing RabbitMQ in Windows using Chocolatey

Start PowerShell as Administrator and run this command, which installs RabbitMQ including the management plugin at port 15672:

choco install rabbitmq --version 3.12.10

If you have issues using the RabbitMQ CLI, please refer to the "Troubleshooting common issues" section of this post.

Using rabbitmqctl

Enable the management plugin:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Create user as administrator with permissions to all virtual hosts:

# Create new user
rabbitmqctl add_user username password123

# Make user an administrator
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags username administrator

# Grant permissions for all vhosts
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / username ".*" ".*" ".*"

List users:

rabbitmqctl list_users

Grants permissions for a user in a virtual host:

rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p "custom-vhost" "username" ".*" ".*" ".*"

Revoke permissions of a user in a virtual host:

rabbitmqctl clear_permissions -p "custom-vhost" "username"

List all virtual hosts:

rabbitmqctl list_vhosts

Create a vhost:

rabbitmqctl add_vhost "custom-vhost"

Delete a vhost:

rabbitmqctl delete_vhost "custom-vhost"

Troubleshooting common issues with RabbitMQ CLI

If RabbitMQ CLI tools are not accessible in your command prompt, add it to PATH and refresh the session:

# First, check if rabbitmq CLI tools are accessible
rabbitmqctl version

# If rabbitmqctl is not found, then add it to PATH and refresh the session
Function Set-PathVariable {
    param(
        [string]$AddPath
    )
    if (Test-Path $AddPath){
        $regexAddPath = [regex]::Escape($AddPath)
        $arrPath = $env:Path -split ';' | Where-Object {$_ -notMatch "^$regexAddPath\\?"}
        $envPathToSet = ($arrPath + $AddPath) -join ';'
		[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $envPathToSet, "Machine")
    } else {
        Throw "'$AddPath' is not a valid path."
    }
}

Set-PathVariable -AddPath "C:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.12.10\sbin"

refreshenv

# Now this should work
rabbitmqctl version

Fix the RabbitMQ Erland cookie mismatch (https://www.rabbitmq.com/cli.html#erlang-cookie):

Copy-Item -Path C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\.erlang.cookie -Destination C:\Users\$Env:UserName -force

Troubleshooting commands:

rabbitmqctl report
rabbitmqctl status

Test RabbitMQ aliveness with the default local user 'guest/guest':

iwr -Uri 'http://localhost:15672/api/aliveness-test/%2F' -Headers @{ Authorization = "Basic "+ [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes("guest:guest")) } -UseBasicParsing

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