<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Hello,</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I am new to rabbitmq and these sorts of messaging services. I am having trouble installing RabbitMQ on window7. I would like to use it in conjunction with django-celery to manage a task queue.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">I looked around the archives but I didn’t see anything that offered a solution to my problem. </font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Here is a summary of what I have done thus far. First I installed erlang 5.8.4 and rabbitmq 2.5.1 and followed the procedure on the windows install page. Everything seemed to go well, however when I tried to run the server it continually returned node down. In the hello world example using pika I got the message that the connection was actively refused by the machine. So first I checked my firewall to make sure port 5672 was open. Then, I made sure my C:/Windows .erlang.cookie matched the on in my user directory.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Starting the server I would get a boot error that was not very descriptive: error, badmatch error.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">So I decided to try to uninstall and run the prepackaged windows binaries. Well then there was a windows service error mismatch because I had installed erlang 5.8.4 and the windows binaries used 5.8.3. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The windows service was point to the wrong directory. Service.msc does not allow you to edit the path. I used the SC DELETE command at the terminal to remove the RabbitMQ service imaging that a fresh install would replace the service value with the correct location.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Since then I have not been able to add the service back. When I attempt to run ‘rabbitmq-service install’ get the message: Warning, could not set correct service description (comment) Error: The handle is invalid.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">The same message comes up when I run any of the commands. I have tried to wipe all traces of erlang and rabbit from my machine to start again, but it has not been possible. I would really like to resolve this matter and get the messaging server up and running.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Any suggestions? I appreciate any assistance.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Thanks.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Chris</font></font></p>