RabbitMQ, Erlang: How to “make sure the erlang cookies are the same”

Question

I am using RabbitMQ with Grails, and a problem cropped up this morning. When I run rabbitmqctl status it tells me:

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Answer 1

In my case, for some reason the cookie (.erlang.cookie) stored under C:\Windows\ was different from the one I had stored under my home (%HOMEDRIVE% %HOMEPATH%, which was C:\ for me).

Once I copied the cookie from C:\Windows into my my home folder everything started working.