Getting started: HiveMQ, Native Websockets Support and Message Log Plugin
In this very short blog post we want to show you how quickly you can get a local running HiveMQ with MQTT over Websockets support and the Message Log plugin ready for action.
This is an ideal starting point for trying out MQTT locally on you computer.
So without too much words we are getting started right away:
Quickest Method in under 2 min: MacOSX + Homebrew
Open your terminal
brew tap hivemq/homebrew-hivemq
brew install hivemq
brew install hivemq-mqtt-message-log
vi /usr/local/Cellar/hivemq/1.4.4/libexec/conf/configuration.properties (use your favorite editor)Change websockets.enabled to true
Change websockets.port to 8000
Otherwise (longer than 2min)
Download the current version from here
Download the Message Log Plugin from here
Unzip HiveMQ
Unzip the Message Log plugin
Copy the plugin jar into the HiveMQ plugins folder
Open conf/configurations.properties with your favorite editor
Change websockets.enabled to true
Change websockets.port to 8000
Windows
Double click run.bat in the bin folder
Linux/MacOSX
Open a terminal and go into the HiveMQ folder
chmod +x bin/run.sh
./bin/run.shCheck if everything is running
Open our MQTT client in the browser
Change host to localhost (make sure broker and browser are on the same machine)
Click Connect
HiveMQ should recognize the connect
Done!!
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