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Manuel Jordan
Manuel Jordan

Reputation: 16271

When use rabbitmq.conf and rabbitmq-env.conf?

I am reading:

What is not clear is

Especially when is mandatory use one over the other, it without matter in what OS (Windows, Linux, Mac) RabbitMQ is running.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7309

Answers (2)

Luke Bakken
Luke Bakken

Reputation: 9637

rabbitmq-env.conf is used to set environment variables that are read upon startup docs. rabbitmq.conf is used to set things like TCP port, SSL certificates docs.

Environment variables (specified via rabbitmq-env.conf) are generally used to configure values that must be set prior to the start of the Erlang virtual machine - things like node name, the location of log and database files, etc.

Upvotes: 1

Greg0ry
Greg0ry

Reputation: 1069

I'm on linux and I use both.

In my system rabbitmq comes with pre-configured rabbitmq-env.conf. It would probably be enough if I was not clustering across multiple hosts (there is no rabbitmq.conf added to my /etc/rabbitmq by default).

As far as I understand (and I'm not rabbitmq expert) the rabbitmq.conf is to control some erlang based options. I personally use kernel options to bind rabbitmq to interface of my choice. But there is myriad of other things you can do there - in example you can configure rabbitmq to communicate over ssl and require all clients to authenticate using specific fields in their certificates. As far as I understand you cannot do that by using rabbitmq-env.conf.

Upvotes: 1

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