Erlang is needed to install rabbitmq on webfaction. First create a custom app erlang on webfaction listneing to some port (say 25090)
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.3.tar.gz
gunzip -c otp_src_18.3.tar.gz | tar xf -
cd into the directory (cd otp_src_18.3 im my case)
./configure --prefix=/home/username/
make
make install
epmd -port 25090 -daemon
install rabbitmq:
First create a custom app rabbitmq on webfaction listneing to some port (in my case say 22136)
wget http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v3.2.4/rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-3.2.4.tar.gz
gunzip -c rabbitmq-server-generic-unix-3.2.4.tar.gz | tar xf -
pwd
/home/username/webapps/rabbitmq
ln -s $PWD/rabbitmq_server-3.2.4 ~/lib/erlang/lib/
vi rabbitmq_server-3.2.4/sbin/rabbitmq-defaults
replace this:
#CONFIG_FILE=${SYS_PREFIX}/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq
#LOG_BASE=${SYS_PREFIX}/var/log/rabbitmq
#MNESIA_BASE=${SYS_PREFIX}/var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia
with this:
CONFIG_FILE=/home/username/webapps/rabbitmq/rabbitmq_server-3.3.5/sbin/
LOG_BASE=/home/username/logs/user/rabbitmq
MNESIA_BASE=/home/username/webapps/rabbitmq/rabbitmq_server-3.3.5/sbin/
open this
vi rabbitmq_server-3.2.4/sbin/rabbitmq-env
and add this at end:
export ERL_EPMD_PORT=25090
export RABBITMQ_NODE_PORT=22136
export ERL_INETRC=$HOME/.erl_inetrc
also add these file with related content
vi $HOME/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.0.1 webfaction-server-address wefaction-server-address.webfaction.com
vi $HOME/.erl_inetrc
{hosts_file, "/home/username/hosts"}.
{lookup, [file,native]}.
./rabbitmq_server-3.2.4/sbin/rabbitmq-server -detached
./rabbitmq_server-3.2.4/sbin/rabbitmqctl status