Unable to access RabbitMQ admin page of RabbitMQ server running on a Debian Wheezy instance in Google Compute Engine

Question

I'm using a Debian Wheezy instance on Google Compute Engine. I installed rabbitmq on the machine using:

sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server

It shows that the server is running when I run the command:

sudo rabbitmqctl status

I then also installed the management plugin using:

sudo rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Also have uncommented the ulimit line in /etc/default/rabbit-mq server file and then restarted rabbitmq using sudo service rabbitmq-server restart

However, when I try to access the admin page using http://[my_machine_ip]:15672, it shows 'webpage is not available' message. I have also opened port tcp:15672 in the firewall for the network being used by the VM instance. Still, I'm unable to access the admin page.

Answer 1

Have you tried using http://localhost:15672? Perhaps your machine is not allowing the traffic via the real IP... but it should work via localhost if the management plugin is running.

Have you run rabbitmq-plugins list and made sure the management plugin is running? You should see something like this:

[E*] rabbitmq_management               3.5.1
[e*] rabbitmq_management_agent         3.5.1
[E*] rabbitmq_management_visualiser    3.5.1

the [E*] means "Explicitly enabled"

Lastly, you may be running in to SELinux configuration issues. When I installed RMQ on Redhat Linux, I had to tell SELinux to allow the RMQ ports, including the web management port.