Install RabbitMQ on MAC

Step 1: Download RabbitMQ from following location. Extract the downloaded tar file.

https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-standalone-mac.html

Step 2: After extracting, you can see sbin folder. Add path of sbin to your system path.

Step 3: Open new terminal and type following command to start rabbitmq server.

$ rabbitmq-server

              RabbitMQ 3.5.4. Copyright (C) 2007-2015 Pivotal Software, Inc.
  ##  ##      Licensed under the MPL.  See http://www.rabbitmq.com/
  ##  ##
  ##########  Logs: /Users/harikrishna_gurram/softwares/rabbitmq_server-3.5.4/sbin/../var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@localhost.log
  ######  ##        /Users/harikrishna_gurram/softwares/rabbitmq_server-3.5.4/sbin/../var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit@localhost-sasl.log
  ##########
              Starting broker... completed with 0 plugins.

Stop RabbitMQ server

Use command “rabbitmqctl stop”  to stop the server.

Run RabbitMQ in background

Use "rabbitmq-server -detached" to run rabbitmq server in background.

Configure rabbitMQ

You can configure rabbitMQ server by setting environment variables in $RABBITMQ_HOME/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf. Server components can be configured in the RabbitMQ configuration file located at $RABBITMQ_HOME/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config. Neither of these files exist after installation (you have to create these files by yourself).

Get the status of rabbitMQ
Use command “rabbitmqctl status”, to know the status of rabbitMQ server.

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