Problems getting RabbitMQ and Django-Celery Running: Target Machine actively refused connection - django

Question

I am trying to get Django-Celery running on my Django App. I cannot get the worker server to run. When I try I get the message: No Connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
Here is what I have done so far. First, I installed the django celery package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-celery
I can load it into python without problems. I also installed the RabbitMQ server per the windows install instructions: http://www.rabbitmq.com/install.html#windows
Starting the tutorials in pytho on the RabbitMQ site I saw the need to install pika: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pika. It imports without any problems.
From there I start the RabbitMQ server by running this at the command line: rabbitmq-service start
I get the message back that Service RabbitMQ started
Here is where I start to have problems.
I attempted the first steps in django-celery: http://packages.python.org/django-celery/getting-started/first-steps-with-django.html and the "hello world" example on the rabbitMQ site: http://www.rabbitmq.com/tutorials/tutorial-one-python.html
In both cases I get the message: No Connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
My first thought was that this sounded like a firewall problem. So I went into the windows 7 firewall and added inbound and outbound rules to open the local and remote ports 5672 and 5673 to TCP protocol, but I still get the same error message.
When I run rabbitmqctl status i get the message:
Error: unable to connect to node 'rabbit#hostname': nodedown
diagnostics:
- nodes and their ports on hostname: [{rabbitmqctl18856, 505031}]
Does that mean it that it is trying to operate on those ports? what about the default 5672?
Any suggestions?
UPDATE: This was actually a problem resulting from several failed rabbitmq installs conflicting with the latest installation. If you have to remove rabbitmq use the 'rabbitmq-service remove' command and not SC DELETE, which cause a lot of problems for me and I had to go in and clean up my windows registry file.

Answer 1

The nodedown error indicated by rabbitmqctl suggests that the server isn't running on that machine.
Try going though the steps in RabbitMQ's troubleshooting guide. In particular, pay close attention to the logs. Has the server crashed for some reason? Could you post the logs somewhere?