When RabbitMQ has already been installed, changing the RabbitMQ storage installation parameters in the installer/updater script will have no effect. To change the storage, you need to perform the following actions:

  1. Stop the RabbitMQ Service

     

  2. Move the existing RabbitMQ folder to the new location

Often Located under the user that installed RabbitMQ’s AppData\Roaming folder, eg: C:\Users\DigiAdmin\AppData\Roaming\RabbitMQ

  1. Change the System Environment variable

RABBITMQ_BASE to point to the new location

  1. Restart the Server