Issue with latin characters in HOMEPATH and RABBITMQ_BASE path - SOLVED

[Stonovsky]

Does anybody has this kind of problem that was unable to start service or connect to Web API?

After struggling with this for dozen of hours I finally got what the problem was - you need to check whether %AppData% (type it in CMD) does not contain latin characters (different than english ones). If so you need to change paths to those that do not cover this characters. To do so:

for example wrong Homepath: C:\User\Tłóść\RabbitMQ
has to be switched to, for example: C\RabbitMQ\Data

To do so:

1. Run in RabbitMQ command line:

• rabbitmq-service.bat remove
• set RABBITMQ_BASE=C\RabbitMQ\Data
• rabbitmq-service.bat install

2. Add following line to files: rabbitmq-service.bat or rabbitmq-server.bat:
   SET HOMEPATH=\RabbitMQ\Data

3. Enable management plugin (in RabbitMQ CMD):
   rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

4. Go in your web browser to: localhost:15672 -> should work!

It would be great if this issue can be solved in next releses because it is huge problem to find out why exception occures and how to handle it