Can't access RabbitMQ web management interface after fresh install
RabbitmqRabbitmq Problem Overview
I've installed the latest RabbitMQ server (rabbitmq-server-3.3.0-1.noarch.rpm) on a fresh Centos 5.10 VM according to the instructions on the official site.
I've done this many times before during development and never had any issues. However, this time I cannot log into the management web interface using the default guest/guest user.
In the logs, I see the following:
=ERROR REPORT==== 4-Apr-2014::00:55:15 ===
webmachine error: path="api/whoami"
"Unauthorized"
What could be causing this?
Rabbitmq Solutions
Solution 1 - Rabbitmq
It's new features since the version 3.3.0 http://www.rabbitmq.com/release-notes/README-3.3.0.txt
server
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25603 prevent access using the default guest/guest credentials except via
localhost.
If you want enable the guest user read this or this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23669780/rabbitmq-3-3-1-can-not-login-with-guest-guest
# remove guest from loopback_users in rabbitmq.config like this
[{rabbit, [{loopback_users, []}]}].
# It is danger for default user and default password for remote access
# better to change password
rabbitmqctl change_password guest NEWPASSWORD
If you want create a new user with admin grants:
rabbitmqctl add_user test test
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags test administrator
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / test ".*" ".*" ".*"
Now you can access using test test.
Solution 2 - Rabbitmq
If you still can't access the management console after a fresh install, check if the management console was enabled. To enable it:
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Go to the RabbitMQ command prompt.
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Type:
rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
Solution 3 - Rabbitmq
Something that just happened to me and caused me some headaches:
I have set up a new Linux RabbitMQ server and used a shell script to set up my own custom users (not guest!).
The script had several of those "code" blocks:
rabbitmqctl add_user test test
rabbitmqctl set_user_tags test administrator
rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p / test ".*" ".*" ".*"
Very similar to the one in Gabriele's answer, so I take his code and don't need to redact passwords.
Still I was not able to log in in the management console. Then I noticed that I had created the setup script in Windows (CR+LF line ending) and converted the file to Linux (LF only), then reran the setup script on my Linux server.
... and was still not able to log in, because it took another 15 minutes until I realized that calling add_user over and over again would not fix the broken passwords (which probably ended with a CR character). I had to call change_password for every user to fix my earlier mistake:
rabbitmqctl change_password test test
(Another solution would have been to delete all users and then call the script again)
Solution 4 - Rabbitmq
If on Windows and installed using chocolatey make sure firewall is allowing the default ports for it:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="RabbitMQ Management" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=15672
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="RabbitMQ" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=5672
for the remote access.
Solution 5 - Rabbitmq
If you are in Mac OS, you need to open the /usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf and
set NODE_IP_ADDRESS=, it used to be 127.0.0.1. Then add another user as the accepted answer suggested.
After that, restart rabbitMQ, brew services restart rabbitmq