How to create RabbitMQ Exchange

RabbitMQ Exchange Create Step by Step:

I hope you have successfully installed RabbitMQ in your respective system, if not follow below steps.

• Install RabbitMQ in windows.
• Install RabbitMQ in Linux.

Let’s create new Exchange open http://localhost:15672 in browser. Enter respective credentials default (guest/guest).
For Linux system you have to enable or set password through CLI after enabling web management console.

After login successfully in RabbitMQ, click on exchange Tab as shown below:

Scroll down of the page and click Add a new exchange as show below:

Enter respective details of exchange as shown below:

Some of Important RabbitMQ Exchange Properties:

• Name
• Type
• Durability
• Auto Delete
• Internal

Let’s see all above properties in details:

• Name: Set unique name for exchange.
• Type: Please select respective exchange type as explained above as per your requirement.
• Durability: By setting this property you can make sure message will survive or not post starting of server.
  • Durable: Message will survive even post restarting of server and these data will be stored in server memory.
  • Transient: In this case message will be deleted after restarting of server.
• Auto Delete: By using auto delete property, we can set whether an exchange can delete if we unbind assigned queue.
• Internal: If we set this property yes, then the exchange may not be used directly by publishers, but only when bound to other exchanges.
• Alternate-exchange: If there is an issue in publishing message to exchange, then by using this property, we can specify an alternate exchange to send a message to queue.

As we learned about exchange creation in RabbitMQ now next steps is how to create queue in RabbitMQ.

How to create queue in RabbitMQ