How to install RabbitMQ on Mac

For some reason, if you need to install RabbitMQ on Mac, then this post will help you.

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I will use homebrew for installing rabbitMQ. If you don't have homebrew installed yet, it's recommended to install it.

Now simply run in your terminal-

brew install rabbitmq

It will take some time for installing rabbitmq on your machine.

There are two ways to run rabbitMQ.

To run in the command line, open the terminal and hit ~ then enter, that will bring you the root directory. Now run-

/usr/local/sbin/rabbitmq-server

If everything goes smoothly, it will show you-

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Starting broker... completed with 6 plugins.

If you wish to run rabbitMQ in the background, then you need to run the following command-

brew services start rabbitmq

To access rabbitMQ, open your browser and access

http://localhost:15672

It will show you a login screen. Now provide the default credentials-

Username: guest Password: guest

Thank you.