How to install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 16.04?

1. Updating our system’s default application toolset

• sudo apt-get update

• sudo apt-get -y upgrade

2. Install Erlang

1. The following commands are used to add Erland apt repository on to your system

   • wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb

   • sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb

2. Install erlang package on your system using the following command. This will install all of its dependencies as well

   • sudo apt-get update

   • sudo apt-get install erlang

3. Install RabbitMQ Server

1. To add the APT repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

   • echo 'deb http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/ testing main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list

2. To avoid warnings about unsigned packages, add our public key to your trusted key list using apt-key(8)

   • wget -O- https://www.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq-release-signing-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

3. Run the following command to update the package list:

   • sudo apt-get update

4. Install rabbitmq-server package:

   • sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

4. Start, Stop, Restart and check Status of RabbitMQ server

1. To start the service:

   • service rabbitmq-server start

2. To stop the service:

   • service rabbitmq-server stop

3. To restart the service:

   • service rabbitmq-server restart

4. To check the status of the service:

   • service rabbitmq-server status

5. Enabling the management console

1. sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

2. RabbitMQ dashboard starts on port 15672. Access your server on the port to get dashboard http://localhost:15672/

6. Create Admin/User in RabbitMQ

1. By default rabbitmq creates a user named “guest” with password “guest”.

2. sudo rabbitmqctl add_user admin password Change password with your own password

3. sudo rabbitmqctl set_user_tags admin administrator

4. sudo rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / admin ".*" ".*" ".*"