Windows could not start the RabbitMQ Service on local Computer

Question

I am trying to start RabbitMQ service on my local Windows laptop but I keep getting this error:

I first downloaded erlang (OTP 19.0 Windows 64-bit Binary File)

Answer 1

Open the command prompt and run the following commands one by one:

c:\>cd\  
c:\>cd Program Files  
c:\Program Files>cd RabbitMQ Server  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server>dir  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server>cd rabbitmq_server-3.8.1  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1>dir  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1>cd sbin  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1\sbin>dir  
c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1\sbin>SET HOMEDRIVE=C:

c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1\sbin>rabbitmq-service enable

c:\Program Files\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-3.8.1\sbin>rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

and please make sure that you have copied the .erlang.cookie from c:\Windows to the root of your user folder ( C:\Users{user}\ )