Why is the Ansible Tower Installation Failing with RabbitMQ Errors?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When installing Ansible Tower, you get the following error message:

TASK [rabbitmq : start and enable the rabbitmq service] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
0;31mfatal: [HOST]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to start service rabbitmq-server: Job for rabbitmq-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See \"systemctl status rabbitmq-server.service\" and \"journalctl -xe\" for details.\n"}

When viewing the Rabbit systemctl status, the following is displayed:

Config file generation failed 15:37:25.462 [error] Syntax error in /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.conf after line 1 column 1, parsing incomplete

Environment

Ansible Tower

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase of over 48,000 articles and solutions.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In
Close

Welcome! Check out the Getting Started with Red Hat page for quick tours and guides for common tasks.