RabbitMQ started but can't access management interface

54
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I have RabbitMQ installed and started. The service is running as well. However, when I try to open the management interface in firefox, I get this error:

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:#####. (##### being several port numbers i tried).

I checked the ports and made sure that they were correct as well as trying to reinstall RabbitMQ.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

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8 Answers

90
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I think you should check a few things:

the management plugin is not enabled by default, you need to run the below command to enable it: (see https://www.rabbitmq.com/management.html)

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Also this runs on port 15672 by default, it is possible the server/network is blocking this port. You will need to check that the port is open.

17
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The problem is because you need to enable the plugins in RabbitMQ, in order to enable that open "RabbitMQ Command Prompt (sbin dir)" and run the following command

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

It will enable all the plugins that is associated with the RabbitMQ. Now open the browser and type http://localhost:15672 it will open a RabbitMQ console login with guest as username and guest as password.

9
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Sometimes, on Windows, it's not enough to do just rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management. UI is accessible only after reinstalling RabbitMQ

1
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I am using rabbitmq container. What made the UI available (under http://localhost:15672/) again for me is stopping/starting the container:

> docker stop <container-id> 
> docker start <container-id>
1
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If you are using Chrome please try with Firefox, I had the same issue on Chrome however it worked fine on Firefox.

1
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In Windown, For some reason delete all folder in c:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ\db\ (xxx is your username)

start rabbitmq net start rabbitmq

check rabbitmq service rabbitmqctl status

Then restart the rabbitmq server from Windows start option.

0
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I have encountered this issue on Windows 10 after installing using chocolatey. I removed and reinstall the service, but it still did not work.

I had to remove the whole RabbitMq and manually install using the installer.

That is rather strange, since chocolatey downloads and installs using some setup executables anyway.

0
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In my case,The rabbit mq in browser runs on http://localhost:15672/.I was trying to access http://localhost:5672/