ActiveMQ console not available

Question

I installed ActiveMQ 5.5.0 on my Windows machine, and it had a web console (http://localhost:8161/admin) working out of the box.

Then I installed ActiveMQ (same version) on a remote Linux box (IP: AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD), but whenever I point the browser to

http://AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:8161/admin

I get the "Unable to connect" error in the browser.

The network connection is there, I can connect to AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD via ssh and to another web application running on the same server.

Therefore I think that the cause of the problem is wrong configuration of the embedded Jetty server of ActiveMQ.

How can fix the problem, i. e. enable the access to the web console from a remote browser?

Answer 1

In your ActiveMQ config file you should see something like:

<import resource="${activemq.base}/conf/jetty.xml"/>

This starts up an embedded Jetty container with the web console.

If you start the broker on the console, you should see the following if everything works

 INFO | ActiveMQ WebConsole initialized.
 INFO | Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'dispatcher'
 INFO | ActiveMQ Console at http://0.0.0.0:8161/admin