---
date: 2014-11-18
title: Installing RabbitMQ on CentOS 7
category: devops
---

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