Setup RabbitMQ on Windows

In this post we will download and start RabbitMQ instance.
RabbitMQ is open source message broker software (sometimes called message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP). The RabbitMQ server is written in the Erlang programming language and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover.

1. Since RabbitMQ is built on top of Erlang, we will first need to install Erlang. Got to the Erlang downloads page (https://www.erlang.org/downloads) and download the erlang binary file for windows which is an executable.

2. Next run the binary file downloaded and install erlang on your machine.
3. Go to RabbitMQ downloads page and download RabbitMQ installation.
4. This will be a .exe installation file for windows.
5. Run this exe and install RabbitMQ on your machine.
6. This will install the RabbitMQ on your system and it will start the RabbitMQ by default
7. By default RabbitMQ UI is disabled, to enable the UI we need to open the RabbitMQ command promt / bin folder and fire below command.
rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management
8. Restart the RabbitMQ with : rabbitmq-server.bat restart

9. Default port of RabbitMQ is : http://localhost:15672/#/ and login with guest / geust