RabbitMQ failed to start, TCP connection succeeded but Erlang distribution failed

Question

I\'m a new one just start to learn and install RabbitMQ on Windows System.

I install Erlang VM and RabbitMQ in custom folder, not default folder (Both of them).

Answer 1

How I resolved mine

It's mostly caused by cookie mismatch on a fresh installation of Rabbit MQ

follow this 2 steps

1. copy the .erlang.cookie file from C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile paste it into 
C:\Users\["your user nameusername"] folder

2. run rabbitmq-service.bat stop and rabbitmq-service.bat start

Done it should work now when you run 'rabbitmqctl start_app' good luck.

note if you have more than one user put it in the correct user folder