How to enable instances for Apache ActiveMQ running on Ubuntu?

Question

I've just installed ActiveMQ using apt-get on Ubuntu 11.10.

Every time I try to start it I can see on in the console:

No instances found at /etc/activemq/instances-enabled.

To start the service I'm using service command as follow:

$ sudo service activemq start

It looks to me like approach to configuring Apache2 on Ubuntu, but I've failed to find any documentation on how to manage instances. Perhaps anyone here could give me a hand?

Solution 1

The install has a default configuration in /etc/activemq/instances-available/main

So typing this in the console should work.

sudo ln -s /etc/activemq/instances-available/main /etc/activemq/instances-enabled/main

Solution 2

If you install activemq package on Ubuntu 12.04 (not sure about 11.10) some other helpful documentation available here:

/usr/share/doc/activemq/README.Debian

Sample configs (for example with web console and stomp API) here:

/usr/share/doc/activemq/examples/

Comments

[Adam Monsen]

Bummer there's no equivalent for the apache2 package's a2enmod, a2ensite, etc.

[Derek Mahar]

Note that after you create the symbolic link, you must run sudo service activemq restart, not sudo service activemq start because you must stop then start the service. I think this may be due to a bug in the service initialization script.

[Derek Mahar]

The activemq package should also enable this default configuration. I think this is a bug in the package.