Today i spent quite some time investigating why i could make the plugin “management” run with RabbitMQ. I was running ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) and did sudo apt-get install rabbitmq-server.
First of all, it was a mystery how to enable the plugins. There were no default plugin directory existing, but thats solved by adding it yourself. You can find your rabbitmq directory with whereis, e.g. “whereis rabbitmq”. Then you just create a folder called “plugins” inside the folder called rabbitmq_version, in my case: /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-1.7.2/
In the above case, i didnt get it working, as the management interface isn’t compatible with 1.7.2, which is bundled with the LTS. So now I’m investigating the possibility to upgrade it via their custom apt-get repository available from their website.
However, the reason why im writing this, is that i spent a lot of time not beeing able to enable the plugins.
You have to run a script inside the bin folder in /usr/lib/rabbitmq/ – both for enabling and disabling plugins
