Change Default 'home' Path in Erlang to Resolve RabbitMQ Start Up Error

Question

I\'m new to rabbitmq and by association new to erlang. I\'m running into a problem where I cannot start rabbitmq as the \'home\' location for the .erlang.cookie has been cha

Answer 1

You need to set the correct values ​​for variables $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH. These links should help:

• Permanently Change Environment Variables in Windows
• Overriding HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH as a Windows 7 user

Answer 2

The solution I came up with was to not bother with the installed service. I used the rabbitmq-server.bat to start the service, SET HOMEDRIVE=C: at the start of the file. I'm planing to run this from a parent service so that I can install this on servers.

Final note to earlang and rabbitMQ developers; using pre-existing environment variables for you own purposes is just wrong. You should create your own, or better yet put this stuff in a configuration file. Telling people to talk to their system administrators to change the HOMEDRIVE and APPDATA variables is arrogant to say the least.