This document is for Celery's development version, which can be significantly different from previous releases. Get old docs here: 2.1.

Broker Installation

Installing RabbitMQ

See Installing RabbitMQ over at RabbitMQ’s website. For Mac OS X see Installing RabbitMQ on OS X.

Note

If you’re getting nodedown errors after installing and using rabbitmqctl then this blog post can help you identify the source of the problem:

Setting up RabbitMQ

To use celery we need to create a RabbitMQ user, a virtual host and allow that user access to that virtual host:

$ rabbitmqctl add_user myuser mypassword

$ rabbitmqctl add_vhost myvhost

$ rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p myvhost myuser ".*" ".*" ".*"

See the RabbitMQ Admin Guide for more information about access control.

Installing RabbitMQ on OS X

The easiest way to install RabbitMQ on Snow Leopard is using Homebrew; the new and shiny package management system for OS X.

In this example we’ll install Homebrew into /lol, but you can choose whichever destination, even in your home directory if you want, as one of the strengths of Homebrew is that it’s relocatable.

Homebrew is actually a git repository, so to install Homebrew, you first need to install git. Download and install from the disk image at http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/downloads/list?can=3

When git is installed you can finally clone the repository, storing it at the /lol location:

$ git clone git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew /lol

Brew comes with a simple utility called brew, used to install, remove and query packages. To use it you first have to add it to PATH, by adding the following line to the end of your ~/.profile:

export PATH="/lol/bin:/lol/sbin:$PATH"

Save your profile and reload it:

$ source ~/.profile

Finally, we can install rabbitmq using brew:

$ brew install rabbitmq

Configuring the system host name

If you’re using a DHCP server that is giving you a random host name, you need to permanently configure the host name. This is because RabbitMQ uses the host name to communicate with nodes.

Use the scutil command to permanently set your host name:

sudo scutil --set HostName myhost.local

Then add that host name to /etc/hosts so it’s possible to resolve it back into an IP address:

127.0.0.1       localhost myhost myhost.local

If you start the rabbitmq server, your rabbit node should now be rabbit@myhost, as verified by rabbitmqctl:

$ sudo rabbitmqctl status
Status of node rabbit@myhost ...
[{running_applications,[{rabbit,"RabbitMQ","1.7.1"},
                    {mnesia,"MNESIA  CXC 138 12","4.4.12"},
                    {os_mon,"CPO  CXC 138 46","2.2.4"},
                    {sasl,"SASL  CXC 138 11","2.1.8"},
                    {stdlib,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","1.16.4"},
                    {kernel,"ERTS  CXC 138 10","2.13.4"}]},
{nodes,[rabbit@myhost]},
{running_nodes,[rabbit@myhost]}]
...done.

This is especially important if your DHCP server gives you a host name starting with an IP address, (e.g. 23.10.112.31.comcast.net), because then RabbitMQ will try to use rabbit@23, which is an illegal host name.

Starting/Stopping the RabbitMQ server

To start the server:

$ sudo rabbitmq-server

you can also run it in the background by adding the -detached option (note: only one dash):

$ sudo rabbitmq-server -detached

Never use kill to stop the RabbitMQ server, but rather use the rabbitmqctl command:

$ sudo rabbitmqctl stop

When the server is running, you can continue reading Setting up RabbitMQ.

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