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:

C:\\Users\\BuildnTest2>rab         


        

Answer 1

For what it's worth, in 2018, the docs are WRONG. In windows 10, the default location of the cookie file appears to be:

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile

and NOT

C:\Windows

as the docs say.

The best thing to do is to look at the log file, which is typically located in your user %AppData%\Roaming\RabbitMQ\log directory.

The log file contains this entry, which helped me determine the cookie location:

node           : rabbit@computername
home dir       : C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile