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+date: 2014-11-18
+title: Installing RabbitMQ on CentOS 7
+category: devops
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+
+Very quick as I did not find any good solutions to this on Google. This
+is actually an interim post as I ran across this while configuring
+[Sensu](https://sensuapp.org/) in my lab. A full post on that, along
+with configuring it with [my Puppet set
+up](https://www.chriscowley.me.uk/blog/2014/06/25/super-slick-agile-puppet-for-devops/)
+is coming.
+
+RabbitMQ is in EPEL (slightly old, but not drastically) so install that
+first, then install from `yum`.
+
+    yum -y install https://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm
+    yum -y install rabbitmq-server
+
+Well that was easy, so just start it with
+
+    systemctl rabbitmq-server start
+
+And it starts
+
+\...
+
+except it does not :-(
+
+In fact it is blocked by 2 things:
+
+-   Firewall
+-   SELinux
+
+I found an answer on
+[StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25816918/not-able-to-start-rabbitmq-server-in-centos-7-using-systemctl)
+which was basically \"Turn it all off\". This is quite frankly an answer
+for the weak! How about actually solving the problem people!
+
+    firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5672/tcp
+    firewall-cmd --reload
+    setsebool -P nis_enabled 1
+
+Now you can start the service and enable it:
+
+    systemctl enable rabbitmq-server
+    systemctl start rabbitmq-server