{"id":828,"date":"2026-10-08T21:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:26:54","slug":"how-to-resolve-the-not_authorized-error-in-docker-rabbitmq-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/how-to-resolve-the-not_authorized-error-in-docker-rabbitmq-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"how to resolve the &#8220;Not_Authorized&#8221; error in docker rabbitmq credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <code>Not_Authorized<\/code> error usually means RabbitMQ is rejecting the credentials or the user doesn&#8217;t have permission to access the virtual host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Check the credentials stored in RabbitMQ<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Compose file uses a persistent volume (<code>rabbitmq-data<\/code>). Changing <code>.env<\/code> does not update credentials in an existing volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>docker compose exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl list_users<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Reset the password<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If <code>appuser<\/code> exists, set its password to match the value in your <code>.env<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>docker compose exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl change_password appuser 'YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD'<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>If the user doesn&#8217;t exist, create it and grant administrator access:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>docker compose exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl add_user appuser 'YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD'\n\ndocker compose exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl set_user_tags appuser administrator\n\ndocker compose exec rabbitmq rabbitmqctl set_permissions -p \/ appuser \".*\" \".*\" \".*\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Replace <code>YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD<\/code> with the password you want to use. Update <code>.env<\/code> to match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Again<\/strong>: once changed\/set it will be persisted in the <em>volume<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Restart and log in again<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>docker compose restart rabbitmq<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Open <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost:15672\/\">http:\/\/localhost:15672<\/a> and log in with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Username: <code>appuser<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Password: The password you set above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Important: Avoid deleting the Docker volume to fix authentication; that can erase your RabbitMQ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the error persists, run <code>docker compose logs --tail=100 rabbitmq<\/code> and check the authentication error details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Not_Authorized error usually means RabbitMQ is rejecting the credentials or the user doesn&#8217;t have permission to access the virtual host. 1. Check the credentials stored in RabbitMQ Your Compose file uses a persistent volume (rabbitmq-data). Changing .env does not update credentials in an existing volume. Run: 2. Reset the password If appuser exists, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,46],"tags":[74,73,5,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kop.lat\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}