This article was previously posted on gettingcirrius.com, a blog of Richard Clayton, who released it under Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY 3.0). His old blog recently went offline, therefore I am reposting this useful how-to on setting up SSL for the RabbitMQ management console.

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