TCP Connection Succeed but Erlang distribution failed. Check if Erlang cookie is identical.

This is a common issue occurs during Rabbit MQ installation. To resolve it,

1. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile and copy .erlang.cookie file.

2. Go to c:\users\{the user}\ and overwrite the .erlang.cookie file.

Now you should move ahead passing this issue.

**If you open and compare each cookie files you can observe that the strings inside them are different which causes the issue.

Updated : 16 Mar 24

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