Failed connect to address "localhost", 8000

[decaz]

I'm using RabbitMQ 3.7.2 and getting the following error:

2017-12-23 19:42:20.351 [error] <0.2068.0> STOMP error frame sent:                                                                                                                                                                                          
Message: access_refused                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Detail: "ACCESS_REFUSED - access to topic 'test' in exchange 'exchange' in vhost 'vhost' refused for user 'user', backend rabbit_auth_backend_http returned an error: {failed_connect,\n                                                        
          ...\n"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Server private detail: none                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
2017-12-23 19:42:23.468 [error] <0.2123.0> access to topic 'test' in exchange 'exchange' in vhost 'vhost' refused for user 'user', backend rabbit_auth_backend_http returned an error: {failed_connect,[{to_address,{"localhost",8000}},{inet,[i
net],econnrefused}]}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            2017-12-23 19:42:23.469 [error] <0.2123.0> Channel error on connection <0.2113.0> (172.18.0.1:52446 -> 172.18.0.4:15671, vhost: 'vhost', user: 'user'), channel 1:                                                                                   
operation queue.bind caused a channel exception access_refused: access to topic 'test' in exchange 'exchange' in vhost 'vhost' refused for user 'user', backend rabbit_auth_backend_http returned an error: {failed_connect,                    
                                                                                                                                                         [{to_address,                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                           {"localhost",                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                            8000}},                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                          {inet,                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                           [inet],                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                           econnrefused}]}                                                                                  

I think that "localhost:8000" is from PROJECT_ENV which is defined in Makefile and can't be overwritten by the configuration file:

auth_backends.1 = internal
auth_backends.2 = http

auth_http.http_method   = post
auth_http.user_path     = http://some_url
auth_http.vhost_path    = http://some_url
auth_http.resource_path = http://some_url

[michaelklishin]

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[michaelklishin]

@decaz it is not hardcoded. PROJECT_ENV only provides defaults. We tested 3.7.2 multiple times against 2 example apps that use different ports. Please keep questions to the mailing list.

[michaelklishin]

RabbitMQ configuration guide contains a section about config file verification, most importantly for this question whether the config file was loaded from the path you expect/or at all.