title: Cannot enable rabbitmq-management plugin on Windows
body: <p>So, this is what I've done:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Installed Erlang on my Windows x64 bit machine</li>
  <li>Installed RabbitMQ</li>
  <li>Started RabbitMQ service</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>At this step I have no errors. When, however, I try to enabe rabbitmq-management, I get some error messages in the console. The way I try to enable it is this one:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\...\rabbitmq-server-3.5.6\sbin&gt;rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This results in:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Applying plugin configuration to rabbit@Jacobian... failed</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>To add to this, I know about <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18661791/failed-to-start-rabbitmq-management-plugin-on-windows">this</a> thread, but I'm not sure what this command means <code>SET HOMEDRIVE=C:</code>. Nevertheless, I tried it like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\...\rabbitmq-server-3.5.6\sbin&gt;  SET HOMEDRIVE=C:
  C:\...\rabbitmq-server-3.5.6\sbin&gt;  rabbitmq-plugins.bat enable rabbitmq_management
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I still got the same error message. Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>EDIT:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qDYDq.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/qDYDq.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>It seems, like <code>RabbitMQ</code> became <code>RubbishMQ</code>. The catch is I followed very standard and very basic steps to install <code>RabbitMQ</code> now on Ubuntu machine and got a terrible list of error messages once again. These are the steps I followed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>apt-get install pkg-config automake autoconf libsigc++-2.0-dev 
  git clone git://github.com/alanxz/rabbitmq-c.git
  cd rabbitmq-c
  # Enable and update the codegen git submodule
  git submodule init
  git submodule update
  # Configure, compile and install
  autoreconf -i &amp;&amp; ./configure &amp;&amp; make &amp;&amp; sudo make install 
  rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I run the last command I get tons of error messages. Among them I see such as "error_logger ... Error when reading ./.erlang.cookie: eaccess". So, I guess there are some secret missing steps or some voodoo spell, that can make it work. But I do not know all that stuff and hope to hear some advice. This is what I expect to see - 1) step by step installation of RabbitMQ on Windows and step by step test, that all works 2) the same for Ubuntu. Ready, Steady, Go!</p>