Recreating default exchanges in RabbitMQ

Question

So... I was messing around on my localhost, and deleted the "/" vhost. Now I'm curious: What do you need to do to recreate the default exchange? Is it possible, or is rabbitmqctl reset the only recourse?

Answer 1

RabbitMQ adds the default exchanges to every new vhost, so you can just re-create the vhost and the default exchanges will be there.

I verified this just now, by deleting the / vhost on my local RMQ and then re-creating it. all of the default exchanges are back, the way they should be.

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also, FWIW, I would recommend not using the / vhost anyways. you should be creating a new vhost for each system you are building. so, really, it doesn't matter that you deleted / because you shouldn't be using it.