[ByteSize] RabbitMQ management UI and Nginx

The [ByteSize] series will be a collection of small, quick solutions to problems that I've come across during my day-to-day software work.

Do you need to have the RabbitMQ interface available at the URL on your domain, but you use Nginx as a reverse proxy? If so, we've got you covered!

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Because of the nature of how RabbitMQ structures its API endpoints and for other reasons I won't get into here (hence Byte-size), I've previously struggled with getting the RabbitMQ management plugin UI available at a URL route controlled by Nginx. Hopefully, this will save you the same headaches I endured.

Of course, you'll want to make sure you have both RabbitMQ and Nginx installed on your system.

Nginx configuration

Let's  firstly setup our nginx.conf file:

sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

...
upstream rabbitmq {        
	least_conn;
        server localhost:15672 weight=10 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;    }
...

Next, let's add location blocks for RabbitMQ:

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

location /rabbitmq/api/ {
            rewrite ^ $request_uri;
            rewrite ^/rabbitmq/api/(.*) /api/$1 break;
            return 400;
            proxy_pass http://rabbitmq$uri;
        }
        location /rabbitmq {
            rewrite ^/rabbitmq$ /rabbitmq/ permanent;
            rewrite ^/rabbitmq/(.*)$ /$1 break;
            proxy_pass http://rabbitmq;
            proxy_buffering                    off;
            proxy_set_header Host              $http_host;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        }

Reload your Nginx config:

nginx -s reload

Ensure you have the RabbitMQ management plugin enabled:

rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management

Now, you can head over to https://your-domain.com/rabbitmq/ and the RabbitMQ login screen will be available.

Thank you for reading,
️~ Dave.
✌️

Credit:
Thanks to lukebakken for the inspiration I got from their gist on Github, original here.