Why is the Ansible Tower Installation Failing with RabbitMQ Errors?
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
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