Latest binary builds for Windows can be obtained from the Erlang/OTP Version Tree page. RabbitMQ requires a 64-bit supported version of Erlang for Windows to be installed. This is covered in more detail in the Windows-specific Issues guide. Reinstallation or other manual steps to get them to function as expected. When these conditions are not met, Windows service and CLI tools may require CLI tools require Windows console to operate in UTF-8 mode.It may be necessary to manually copy the shared secret file used by CLI tools.It is highly recommended that the path does not contain spaces in any directory names. Installation path must only contain ASCII characters.It is highly recommended that RabbitMQ is also installed as an administrative account.Erlang must be installed using an administrative account.

There must be only one Erlang version installed at a time.

The most flexibility but also requires them to beĪware of certain assumptions and requirements in the installer: The official RabbitMQ installer is produced for every RabbitMQ release.Ĭompared to installation via Chocolatey, this option gives Windows users The Chocolatey RabbitMQ package is open source and can be found on GitHub. To install RabbitMQ using Chocolatey, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:įor many use cases, Chocolatey is the optimal installation method. It does, however, manage the required dependencies. So this option is not guaranteed to provide the latest release. New releases can take a while (sometimes weeks) to get through approvals, RabbitMQ packages are distributed via Chocolatey. These topics are covered in more details in the rest of documentation guides.Ī separate companion guide covers known Windows-specific issuesĪnd ways to mitigate them. The guide also covers a few post-installation topics in the context of Windows:Īnd more.

Using the official installer as an administrative user.

It focuses on the two recommended installation This guide covers RabbitMQ installation on Windows.

Xampp windows 7 64 bit