RabbitMQ is open source message broker software (i.e., message-oriented middleware) that implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard. The RabbitMQ server is written in Erlang and is built on the Open Telecom Platform framework for clustering and failover.
Instructions to install Rabbitmq on Amazon EC2 instances.
First you have to enable epel repo. Edit the following file using vi and change Enabled=0 to 1 in first section called [epel].
sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
After that, the first section will look like this
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
Now install the Rabbitmq using the following command.
sudo yum install rabbitmq-server
Install the developement files.
sudo yum install librabbitmq-devel
Start the rabbitmq server.
sudo service rabbitmq-server start
Or you can also install Rabbitmq from source.
yum install gcc gcc-c++ make libxslt fop ncurses-devel openssl-devel *openjdk-devel unixODBC unixODBC-devel
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R15B01
./configure --with-ssl
make
sudo make install
wget http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v2.8.1/rabbitmq-server-2.8.1-1.noarch.rpm
sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start
