title: Can't connect to RabbitMQ on Window Server 2012?
body: <p>I've installed RabbitMQ 3.5.5 on Windows Server 2012 as a service by first installing Erlang (32 bit) and then following the RabbitMQ manual install instructions (<a href="https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows-manual.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-windows-manual.html</a>)</p>
  
  <p>The Windows service starts up fine, but nothing can connect.</p>
  
  <p>When I run <code>rabbitmq_server-3.5.5\sbin\rabbitmqctl.bat status</code> I get the following output:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>rabbit@XXXXXXXX:</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>connected to epmd (port 4369) on XXXXXXXX</li>
    <li>epmd reports node 'rabbit' running on port 25672</li>
    <li>TCP connection succeeded but Erlang distribution failed</li>
    <li>suggestion: hostname mismatch?</li>
    <li>suggestion: is the cookie set correctly?</li>
    <li>suggestion: is the Erlang distribution using TLS?</li>
    </ul>
    
    <p>current node details:</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>node name: 'rabbitmq-cli-1444@XXXXXXXX'</li>
    <li>home dir: C:\Users\userxxxx</li>
    <li>cookie hash: XDarCC/CmuhQpUEo95dj8g==</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>From the output and from <code>netstat</code> I can see that rabbit is running on port 4369.</p>
  
  <p>I can start the server manually using <code>rabbitmq-server.bat</code> and everything works.</p>
  
  <p>I can't find any additional cookies floating around except for the one in my user directory (<code>C:\Users\userxxxx</code>).</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any ideas?</p>